Thematic Bible
Job 21:1 (show verse)
Then Job answered and said,
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Job 21:2 (show verse)
"Listen carefully to my words, and let this be your consolation.
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Job 21:3 (show verse)
Bear [with] me, and I myself will speak; then after my speaking you can mock.
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Job 21:4 (show verse)
[As for] me, [is] my complaint for human beings? And if [so], why cannot I be impatient?
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Job 21:5 (show verse)
Turn to me and be appalled, and place [your] hand on [your] mouth.
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Job 21:6 (show verse)
And when I think of [it], I am horrified, and shuddering seizes my flesh.
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Job 21:7 (show verse)
"Why do [the] wicked live, grow old, even grow mighty [in] power?
Job 21:8 (show verse)
With them their offspring [are] established {before them}, and their descendants before their eyes.
Job 21:9 (show verse)
Their houses [are] safe without fear, and the rod of God [is] not upon them.
Job 21:10 (show verse)
His bull breeds and does not fail; his cow calves and does not miscarry.
Job 21:11 (show verse)
They send out their little ones like the flock, and their children dance around.
Job 21:12 (show verse)
They {sing} to [the] tambourine and lyre, and they rejoice to [the] sound of [the] long flute.
Job 21:13 (show verse)
They spend their days in prosperity, and in peace they go down to Sheol.
Job 21:14 (show verse)
And they say to God, 'Turn away from us, for we do not desire to know your ways.
Job 21:15 (show verse)
Who [is] Shaddai that we should serve him, or what would we benefit when we plead with him?'
Job 21:16 (show verse)
Look, their prosperity [is] not in their hands; the schemes of [the] wicked are repugnant to me.
Job 21:17 (show verse)
"How often is [the] lamp of [the] wicked put out, and their disaster comes upon them? He distributes pains in his anger.
Job 21:18 (show verse)
[How often] are they like straw {before} the wind, and like chaff that [the] storm carries away?
Job 21:19 (show verse)
'God stores up his iniquity for his children'? [Then] let him repay [it] to him that he may know.
Job 21:20 (show verse)
Let his eyes see his decay, and let him drink from the wrath of Shaddai,
Job 21:21 (show verse)
for what {does he care for} his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off?
Job 21:22 (show verse)
Can anyone teach knowledge to God, since he himself judges high ones?
Job 21:23 (show verse)
This [one] dies {in full prosperity}, {completely} at ease and secure.
Job 21:24 (show verse)
His vats are full [with] milk and the marrow of his bones is moist.
Job 21:25 (show verse)
Yet another dies with a bitter inner self and has not tasted prosperity.
Job 21:26 (show verse)
They lie down together in [the] dust, and maggots cover them.
Job 21:27 (show verse)
"Look, I know your thoughts and [the] schemes you devise against me.
Job 21:28 (show verse)
For you say, 'Where is the nobleman's house, and where [are] {the tents in which the wicked dwell}?'
Job 21:29 (show verse)
Do you not ask [those] traveling [the] roads, and do you not take notice of their accounts?
Job 21:30 (show verse)
Indeed, [the] wicked is spared from [the] day of disaster; he is delivered from [the] day of wrath.
Job 21:31 (show verse)
Who denounces his way to his face? And who repays him [for what] he has done?
Job 21:32 (show verse)
When he is brought to [the] grave, then someone stands guard over [the] tomb.
Job 21:33 (show verse)
[The] clods of [the] valley are sweet to him; everyone will follow after him, and {before} him {they are innumerable}.
Job 21:34 (show verse)
So how will you comfort me [with] emptiness, when fraud is left [in] your answers?"
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