• Job 21:1

    But Job answered and said,

  • Job 21:2

    Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations.

  • Job 21:3

    Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on.

  • Job 21:4

    As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled?

  • Job 21:5

    Marka me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth.

  • Job 21:6

    Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh.

  • Job 21:7

    Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?

  • Job 21:8

    Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes.

  • Job 21:9

    Their houses are safeb from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them.

  • Job 21:10

    Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf.

  • Job 21:11

    They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.

  • Job 21:12

    They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ.

  • Job 21:13

    They spend their days in wealth,c and in a moment go down to the grave.

  • Job 21:14

    Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.

  • Job 21:15

    What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?

  • Job 21:16

    Lo, their good is not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

  • Job 21:17

    How oft is the candled of the wicked put out! and how oft cometh their destruction upon them! God distributeth sorrows in his anger.

  • Job 21:18

    They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.

  • Job 21:19

    God layeth up his iniquitye for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know it.

  • Job 21:20

    His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty.

  • Job 21:21

    For what pleasure hath he in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off in the midst?

  • Job 21:22

    Shall any teach God knowledge? seeing he judgeth those that are high.

  • Job 21:23

    One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.

  • Job 21:24

    His breastsf are full of milk, and his bones are moistened with marrow.

  • Job 21:25

    And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never eateth with pleasure.

  • Job 21:26

    They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them.

  • Job 21:27

    Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me.

  • Job 21:28

    For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwellingg places of the wicked?

  • Job 21:29

    Have ye not asked them that go by the way? and do ye not know their tokens,

  • Job 21:30

    That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.h

  • Job 21:31

    Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him what he hath done?

  • Job 21:32

    Yet shall he be brought to the grave,i and shall remain in the tomb.

  • Job 21:33

    The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, and every man shall draw after him, as there are innumerable before him.

  • Job 21:34

    How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood?

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