Job Chapter 21 (KJV)
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1. But Job answered and said, | |
2. Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations. | |
3. Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on. | |
4. As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled? | |
5. Mark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth. | |
6. Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh. | |
7. Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power? | |
8. Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes. | |
9. Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them. | |
10. Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf. | |
11. They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance. | |
12. They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ. | |
13. They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave. | |
14. Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways. | |
15. What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him? | |
16. Lo, their good is not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me. | |
17. How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and how oft cometh their destruction upon them! God distributeth sorrows in his anger. | |
18. They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away. | |
19. God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know it. | |
20. His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the almighty. | |
21. For what pleasure hath he in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off in the midst? | |
22. Shall any teach God knowledge? seeing he judgeth those that are high. | |
23. One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet. | |
24. His breasts are full of milk, and his bones are moistened with marrow. | |
25. And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never eateth with pleasure. | |
26. They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them. | |
27. Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me. | |
28. For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked? | |
29. Have ye not asked them that go by the way? and do ye not know their tokens, | |
30. That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath. | |
31. Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him what he hath done? | |
32. Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb. | |
33. The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, and every man shall draw after him, as there are innumerable before him. | |
34. How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood? |
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