Thematic Bible

Job 21:1

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Job 21:2

Hear ye patiently my words, and let this be your consolation:
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Job 21:3

Suffer me, that, I, may speak, and, after I have spoken, thou canst mock!
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Job 21:4

Did, I, unto man, make my complaint? Wherefore, then, should my spirit not be impatient?
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Job 21:5

Turn round to me, and be astonished, and lay hand on mouth!
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Job 21:6

When I call to mind, then am I dismayed, and there seizeth my flesh a shuddering: -
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Job 21:7

Wherefore do, lawless men, live, advance in years, even wax mighty in power?

Job 21:8

Their seed, is established in their sight, along with them, yea their offspring, before their eyes;

Job 21:9

Their houses, are at peace, without dread, neither is, the rod of GOD, upon them;

Job 21:10

His bull, covereth, and causeth not aversion, His cow safely calveth, and casteth not her young;

Job 21:11

They send forth - like a flock - their young ones, and, their children, skip about for joy;

Job 21:12

They rejoice aloud as with timbrel and lyre, and make merry to the sound of the pipe;

Job 21:13

They complete, in prosperity, their days, and, in a moment to hades, they sink down.

Job 21:14

Yet they said unto GOD, Depart from us, and, In the knowledge of thy ways, find we no pleasure.

Job 21:15

What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? Or what shall we profit, that we should urge him?

Job 21:16

Lo! not in their own hand, is their welfare, The counsel of lawless men, is far from me!

Job 21:17

How oft, the lamp of the lawless, goeth out, and their calamity, cometh upon them, Sorrows, apportioneth he in his anger;

Job 21:18

They become as straw before the wind, and as chaff, which the storm stealeth away.

Job 21:19

Shall, GOD, reserve, for his children, his sorrow? Let him recompense him so that he may know it;

Job 21:20

His own eyes, shall see his misfortune, and, the wrath of the Almighty, shall he drink.

Job 21:21

For what shall be his pleasure in his house after him, when, the number of his months, is cut in twain?

Job 21:22

Is it, to GOD, one can teach knowledge, seeing that, he, shall judge, them who are on high?

Job 21:23

This, man dieth, in the very perfection of his prosperity, wholly tranquil and secure;

Job 21:24

His veins, are filled with nourishment, and, the marrow of his bones, is fresh;

Job 21:25

Whereas, this other man, dieth, in bitterness of soul, and hath never tasted good fortune:

Job 21:26

Together, in the dust, they lie down, and, the worm, spreadeth a covering over them.

Job 21:27

Lo! I know your plans, and the devices, wherewith ye would do me violence!

Job 21:28

For ye say, Where is the house of the noble-minded? And where the dwelling-tent of the lawless?

Job 21:29

Have ye not asked the passers-by in the way? And, their signs, can ye not recognise?

Job 21:30

That, to the day of calamity, is the wicked reserved, to the day of indignant visitation, are they led.

Job 21:31

Who can declare - to his face - his way? And, what, he, hath done, who shall recompense to him?

Job 21:32

Yet, he, to the graves, is borne, and, over the tomb, one keepeth watch;

Job 21:33

Pleasant to him are the mounds of the torrent-bed, - and, after him, doth every man march, as, before him, there were without number.

Job 21:34

How then should ye comfort me with vanity, since, as for your replies, there lurketh, in them treachery?
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