Job 21
Job 21:1 Then Job answered and said:
Job 21:2 Listen intently to my words; let this be the consolation you offer.
Job 21:3 Bear with me while I speak; then after I have spoken, you may continue mocking.
Job 21:4 As for me, is my complaint against a human being? Then why shouldn’t I be impatient?
Job 21:5 Look at me and shudder; put your hand over your mouth.
Job 21:6 When I think about it, I am terrified, and my body trembles in horror.
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 upon 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 throat, 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 by which you would wrong me.
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 person 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.
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