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