Thematic Bible
Job 21:1 (show verse)
Then Job answered and said:
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Job 21:2 (show verse)
"Keep listening to my words, and let this be your comfort.
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Job 21:3 (show verse)
Bear with me, and I will speak, and after I have spoken, mock on.
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Job 21:4 (show verse)
As for me, is my complaint against man? Why should I not be impatient?
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Job 21:5 (show verse)
Look at me and be appalled, and lay your hand over your mouth.
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Job 21:6 (show verse)
When I remember, I am dismayed, and shuddering seizes my flesh.
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Job 21:7 (show verse)
Why do the wicked live, reach old age, and grow mighty in power?
Job 21:8 (show verse)
Their offspring are established in their presence, and their descendants before their eyes.
Job 21:9 (show verse)
Their houses are safe from fear, and no rod of God is upon them.
Job 21:10 (show verse)
Their bull breeds without fail; their cow calves and does not miscarry.
Job 21:11 (show verse)
They send out their little boys like a flock, and their children dance.
Job 21:12 (show verse)
They sing to the tambourine and the lyre and rejoice to the sound of the pipe.
Job 21:13 (show verse)
They spend their days in prosperity, and in peace they go down to Sheol.
Job 21:14 (show verse)
They say to God, 'Depart from us! We do not desire the knowledge of your ways.
Job 21:15 (show verse)
What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? And what profit do we get if we pray to him?'
Job 21:16 (show verse)
Behold, is not their prosperity in their hand? The counsel of the wicked is far from me.
Job 21:17 (show verse)
"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?
Job 21:18 (show verse)
That they are like straw before the wind, and like chaff that the storm carries away?
Job 21:19 (show verse)
You say, 'God stores up their iniquity for their children.' Let him pay it out to them, that they may know it.
Job 21:20 (show verse)
Let their own eyes see their destruction, and let them drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
Job 21:21 (show verse)
For what do they care for their houses after them, when the number of their months is cut off?
Job 21:22 (show verse)
Will any teach God knowledge, seeing that he judges those who are on high?
Job 21:23 (show verse)
One dies in his full vigor, being wholly at ease and secure,
Job 21:24 (show verse)
his pails full of milk and the marrow of his bones moist.
Job 21:25 (show verse)
Another dies in bitterness of soul, never having tasted of prosperity.
Job 21:26 (show verse)
They lie down alike in the dust, and the worms cover them.
Job 21:27 (show verse)
"Behold, I know your thoughts and your schemes to wrong me.
Job 21:28 (show verse)
For you say, 'Where is the house of the prince? Where is the tent in which the wicked lived?'
Job 21:29 (show verse)
Have you not asked those who travel the roads, and do you not accept their testimony
Job 21:30 (show verse)
that the evil man is spared in the day of calamity, that he is rescued in the day of wrath?
Job 21:31 (show verse)
Who declares his way to his face, and who repays him for what he has done?
Job 21:32 (show verse)
When he is carried to the grave, watch is kept over his tomb.
Job 21:33 (show verse)
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 (show verse)
How then will you comfort me with empty nothings? There is nothing left of your answers but falsehood."
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