Job ​Chapter 21

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Job 21:1 Then Job answered and said:

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Job 21:2 “Keep listening to my words, and let this be your comfort.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

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Job 21:3 Bear with me, and I will speak, and after I have spoken, mock on.​​​​​​​​​​​

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Job 21:4 As for me, is my complaint against man? Why should I not be impatient?​​​​​​​​​​​

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Job 21:5 Look at me and be appalled, and lay your hand over your mouth.​​​​​​​​​​​​​

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Job 21:6 When I remember, I am dismayed, and shuddering seizes my flesh.​​​​​​​​

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Job 21:7 Why do the wicked live, reach old age, and grow mighty in power?​​​​​​​​​​​​​


Job 21:8 Their offspring are established in their presence, and their descendants before their eyes.​​​​​​​​​​​

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Job 21:9 Their houses are safe from fear, and no rod of God is upon them.​​​​​​​​​​​​​

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Job 21:10 Their bull breeds without fail; their cow calves and does not miscarry.​​​​​​​​​​​​

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Job 21:11 They send out their little boys like a flock, and their children dance.​​​​​​​​​​​​​

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Job 21:12 They sing to the tambourine and the lyre and rejoice to the sound of the pipe.​​​​​​​​​

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Job 21:13 They spend their days in prosperity, and in peace they go down to Sheol.​​​​​​​​​​​

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Job 21:14 They say to God, ‘Depart from us! We do not desire the knowledge of your ways.​​​​​​​​​​​​​

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Job 21:15 What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? And what profit do we get if we pray to him?’​​​​​​​​​​​

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Job 21:16 Behold, is not their prosperity in their hand? The counsel of the wicked is far from me.​​​​​​​​​​​​

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Job 21:17 “How often is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out? That their calamity comes upon them? That God distributes pains in his anger?​​​​​​​​​​​

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Job 21:18 That they are like straw before the wind, and like chaff that the storm carries away?   ​​​​​​​​​​​

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Job 21:19 You say, ‘God stores up their iniquity for their children.’ Let him pay it out to them, that they may know it.​​​​​​​​​​​

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Job 21:20 Let their own eyes see their destruction, and let them drink of the wrath of the Almighty.​​​​​​​​​​​

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Job 21:21 For what do they care for their houses after them, when the number of their months is cut off?​​​​​​​​​​​

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Job 21:22 Will any teach God knowledge, seeing that he judges those who are on high?​​​​​​​​​​​

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Job 21:23 One dies in his full vigor, being wholly at ease and secure,​​​​​​​​​​​

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Job 21:24 his pails full of milk and the marrow of his bones moist. ​​​​​​​​

Job 21:25 Another dies in bitterness of soul, never having tasted of prosperity. ​​​​​​​​​​​​

Job 21:26 They lie down alike in the dust, and the worms cover them. ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Job 21:27 “Behold, I know your thoughts and your schemes to wrong me.​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Job 21:28 For you say, ‘Where is the house of the prince? Where is the tent in which the wicked lived?’​​​​​​​​​​​​

Job 21:29 Have you not asked those who travel the roads, and do you not accept their testimony​​​​​​​​​​​​

Job 21:30 that the evil man is spared in the day of calamity, that he is rescued in the day of wrath?​​​​​​​​​​​​

Job 21:31 Who declares his way to his face, and who repays him for what he has done?​​​​​​​​​​​​

Job 21:32 When he is carried to the grave, watch is kept over his tomb.​​​​​​​​​​​​

Job 21:33 The clods of the valley are sweet to him; all mankind follows after him, and those who go before him are innumerable. ​​​​​​​​​​​​

Job 21:34 How then will you comfort me with empty nothings? There is nothing left of your answers but falsehood.”​​​​​​​​​​​​

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