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Job 21 :: American Standard Version (ASV)

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Job Says God Will Deal with the Wicked

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Job 21:1 - Then Job answered and said,

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Hear diligently my speech;

And let this be your consolations.

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Suffer me, and I also will speak;

And after that I have spoken, mock on.

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As for me, is my complaint to man?

And why should I not be impatient?

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Mark me, and be astonished,

And lay your hand upon your mouth.

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Even when I remember I am troubled,

And horror taketh hold on my flesh.

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Wherefore do the wicked live,

Become old, yea, wax mighty in power?

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Their seed is established with them in their sight,

And their offspring before their eyes.

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Their houses are safe from fear,

Neither is the rod of God upon them.

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Their bull gendereth, and faileth not;

Their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf.

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They send forth their little ones like a flock,

And their children dance.

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They sing to the timbrel and harp,

And rejoice at the sound of the pipe.

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They spend their days in prosperity,

And in a moment they go down to Sheol.

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And they say unto God, Depart from us;

For we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.

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What is the Almighty, that we should serve him?

And what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?

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Lo, their prosperity is not in their hand:

The counsel of the wicked is far from me.

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How oft is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out?

That their calamity cometh upon them?

That God distributeth sorrows in his anger?

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That they are as stubble before the wind,

And as chaff that the storm carrieth away?

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Ye say, God layeth up his iniquity for his children.

Let him recompense it unto himself, that he may know it:

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Let his own eyes see his destruction,

And let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.

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For what careth he for his house after him,

When the number of his months is cut off?

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Shall any teach God knowledge,

Seeing he judgeth those that are high?

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One dieth in his full strength,

Being wholly at ease and quiet:

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His pails are full of milk,

And the marrow of his bones is moistened.

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And another dieth in bitterness of soul,

And never tasteth of good.

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They lie down alike in the dust,

And the worm covereth them.

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Behold, I know your thoughts,

And the devices wherewith ye would wrong me.

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For ye say, Where is the house of the prince?

And where is the tent wherein the wicked dwelt?

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Have ye not asked wayfaring men?

And do ye not know their evidences,

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That the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity?

That they are led forth to the day of wrath?

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Who shall declare his way to his face?

And who shall repay him what he hath done?

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Yet shall he be borne to the grave,

And men shall keep watch over the tomb.

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The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him,

And all men shall draw after him,

As there were innumerable before him.

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How then comfort ye me in vain,

Seeing in your answers there remaineth only falsehood?

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