Thematic Bible
Job 21:1 (show verse)
Then Job answered:
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Job 21:2 (show verse)
"Listen carefully to my words; let this be the consolation you offer me.
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Job 21:3 (show verse)
Bear with me and I will speak, and after I have spoken you may mock.
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Job 21:4 (show verse)
Is my complaint against a man? If so, why should I not be impatient?
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Job 21:5 (show verse)
Look at me and be appalled; put your hands over your mouths.
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Job 21:6 (show verse)
For, when I think about this, I am terrified and my body feels a shudder.
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Job 21:7 (show verse)
"Why do the wicked go on living, grow old, even increase in power?
Job 21:8 (show verse)
Their children are firmly established in their presence, their offspring before their eyes.
Job 21:9 (show verse)
Their houses are safe and without fear; and no rod of punishment from God is upon them.
Job 21:10 (show verse)
Their bulls breed without fail; their cows calve and do not miscarry.
Job 21:11 (show verse)
They allow their children to run like a flock; their little ones dance about.
Job 21:12 (show verse)
They sing to the accompaniment of tambourine and harp, and make merry to the sound of the flute.
Job 21:13 (show verse)
They live out their years in prosperity and go down to the grave in peace.
Job 21:14 (show verse)
So they say to God, 'Turn away from us! We do not want to know your ways.
Job 21:15 (show verse)
Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What would we gain if we were to pray to him?'
Job 21:16 (show verse)
But their prosperity is not their own doing. The counsel of the wicked is far from me!
Job 21:17 (show verse)
"How often is the lamp of the wicked extinguished? How often does their misfortune come upon them? How often does God apportion pain to them in his anger?
Job 21:18 (show verse)
How often are they like straw before the wind, and like chaff swept away by a whirlwind?
Job 21:19 (show verse)
You may say, 'God stores up a man's punishment for his children!' Instead let him repay the man himself so that he may know it!
Job 21:20 (show verse)
Let his own eyes see his destruction; let him drink of the anger of the Almighty.
Job 21:21 (show verse)
For what is his interest in his home after his death, when the number of his months has been broken off?
Job 21:22 (show verse)
Can anyone teach God knowledge, since he judges those that are on high?
Job 21:23 (show verse)
"One man dies in his full vigor, completely secure and prosperous,
Job 21:24 (show verse)
his body well nourished, and the marrow of his bones moist.
Job 21:25 (show verse)
And another man dies in bitterness of soul, never having tasted anything good.
Job 21:26 (show verse)
Together they lie down in the dust, and worms cover over them both.
Job 21:27 (show verse)
"Yes, I know what you are thinking, the schemes by which you would wrong me.
Job 21:28 (show verse)
For you say, 'Where now is the nobleman's house, and where are the tents in which the wicked lived?'
Job 21:29 (show verse)
Have you never questioned those who travel the roads? Do you not recognize their accounts --
Job 21:30 (show verse)
that the evil man is spared from the day of his misfortune, that he is delivered from the day of God's wrath?
Job 21:31 (show verse)
No one denounces his conduct to his face; no one repays him for what he has done.
Job 21:32 (show verse)
And when he is carried to the tombs, and watch is kept over the funeral mound,
Job 21:33 (show verse)
The clods of the torrent valley are sweet to him; behind him everybody follows in procession, and before him goes a countless throng.
Job 21:34 (show verse)
So how can you console me with your futile words? Nothing is left of your answers but deception!"
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