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Themes in Job 21
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Themes in Job 21

Job 21:1

Then Job answered:
No Themes for this verse.

Job 21:2

Pay close attention to my words;
let this be the consolation you offer.
No Themes for this verse.

Job 21:3

Bear with me while I speak;
then after I have spoken, you may continue mocking.
No Themes for this verse.

Job 21:4

As for me, is my complaint against a man?
Then why shouldn’t I be impatient?
No Themes for this verse.

Job 21:5

Look at me and shudder;
put your hand over your mouth.
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Job 21:6

When I think about it, I am terrified
and my body trembles in horror.
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Job 21:7

Why do the wicked continue to live,
growing old and becoming powerful?

Job 21:8

Their children are established while they are still alive,
and their descendants, before their eyes.

Job 21:9

Their homes are secure and free of fear;
no rod from God strikes them.

Job 21:10

Their bulls breed without fail;
their cows calve and do not miscarry.

Job 21:11

They let their little ones run around like lambs;
their children skip about,

Job 21:12

singing to the tambourine and lyre
and rejoicing at the sound of the flute.

Job 21:13

They spend their days in prosperity
and go down to Sheol in peace.

Job 21:14

Yet they say to God: “Leave us alone!
We don’t want to know Your ways.

Job 21:15

Who is the Almighty, that we should serve Him,
and what will we gain by pleading with Him?”

Job 21:16

But their prosperity is not of their own doing.
The counsel of the wicked is far from me!

Job 21:17

How often is the lamp of the wicked put out?
Does disaster come on them?
Does He apportion destruction in His anger?

Job 21:18

Are they like straw before the wind,
like chaff a storm sweeps away?

Job 21:19

God reserves a person’s punishment for his children.
Let God repay the person himself, so that he may know it.

Job 21:20

Let his own eyes see his demise;
let him drink from the Almighty’s wrath!

Job 21:21

For what does he care about his family once he is dead,
when the number of his months has run out?

Job 21:22

Can anyone teach God knowledge,
since He judges the exalted ones?

Job 21:23

One person dies in excellent health,
completely secure and at ease.

Job 21:24

His body is well fed,
and his bones are full of marrow.

Job 21:25

Yet another person dies with a bitter soul,
having never tasted prosperity.

Job 21:26

But they both lie in the dust,
and worms cover them.

Job 21:27

I know your thoughts very well,
the schemes you would wrong me with.

Job 21:28

For you say, “Where now is the nobleman’s house?”
and “Where are the tents the wicked lived in?”

Job 21:29

Have you never consulted those who travel the roads?
Don’t you accept their reports?

Job 21:30

Indeed, the evil man is spared from the day of disaster,
rescued from the day of wrath.

Job 21:31

Who would denounce his behavior to his face?
Who would repay him for what he has done?

Job 21:32

He is carried to the grave,
and someone keeps watch over his tomb.

Job 21:33

The dirt on his grave is sweet to him.
Everyone follows behind him,
and those who go before him are without number.

Job 21:34

So how can you offer me such futile comfort?
Your answers are deceptive.
No Themes for this verse.
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