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Job Chapter 21
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1 Then Job answered,
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2 “Listen diligently to my speech. Let this be your consolation.
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3 Allow me, and I also will speak. After I have spoken, mock on.
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4 As for me, is my complaint to man? Why shouldn’t I be impatient?
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5 Look at me, and be astonished. Lay your hand on your mouth.
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6 When I remember, I am troubled. Horror takes hold of my flesh.
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7 “Why do the wicked live, become old, yes, and grow mighty in power?
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8 Their child is established with them in their sight, their offspring before their eyes.
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9 Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them.
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10 Their bulls breed without fail. Their cows calve, and don’t miscarry.
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11 They send out their little ones like a flock. Their children dance.
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12 They sing to the tambourine and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the pipe.
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13 They spend their days in prosperity. In an instant they go down to Sheol.
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14 They tell God, ‘Depart from us, for we don’t want to know about your ways.
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15 What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What profit should we have, if we pray to him?’
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16 Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand. The counsel of the wicked is far from me.
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17 “How often is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out, that their calamity comes on them, that God distributes sorrows in his anger?
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18 How often is it that they are as stubble before the wind, as chaff that the storm carries away?
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19 You say, ‘God lays up his iniquity for his children.’ Let him recompense it to himself, that he may know it.
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20 Let his own eyes see his destruction. Let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
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21 For what does he care for his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off?
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22 “Shall any teach God knowledge, since he judges those who are high?
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23 One dies in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.
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24 His pails are full of milk. The marrow of his bones is moistened.
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25 Another dies in bitterness of soul, and never tastes of good.
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26 They lie down alike in the dust. The worm covers them.
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27 “Behold, I know your thoughts, the plans with which you would wrong me.
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28 For you say, ‘Where is the house of the prince? Where is the tent in which the wicked lived?’
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29 Haven’t you asked wayfaring men? Don’t you know their evidences,
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30 that the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity, that they are led out to the day of wrath?
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31 Who will declare his way to his face? Who will repay him what he has done?
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32 Yet he will be borne to the grave. Men will keep watch over the tomb.
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33 The clods of the valley will be sweet to him. All men will draw after him, as there were innumerable before him.
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34 So how can you comfort me with nonsense, because in your answers there remains only falsehood?” |