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Job 21 :: New English Translation (NET)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:1 - Then Job answered:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:2 - "Listen carefully to my words; let this be the consolation you offer me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:3 - Bear with me and I will speak, and after I have spoken you may mock.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:4 - Is my complaint against a man? If so, why should I not be impatient?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:5 - Look at me and be appalled; put your hands over your mouths.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:6 - For, when I think about this, I am terrified and my body feels a shudder.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:7 - "Why do the wicked go on living, grow old, even increase in power?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:8 - Their children are firmly established in their presence, their offspring before their eyes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:9 - Their houses are safe and without fear; and no rod of punishment from God is upon them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:10 - Their bulls breed without fail; their cows calve and do not miscarry.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:11 - They allow their children to run like a flock; their little ones dance about.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:12 - They sing to the accompaniment of tambourine and harp, and make merry to the sound of the flute.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:13 - They live out their years in prosperity and go down to the grave in peace.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:14 - So they say to God, 'Turn away from us! We do not want to know your ways.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:15 - Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What would we gain if we were to pray to him?'

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:16 - But their prosperity is not their own doing. The counsel of the wicked is far from me!

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:17 - "How often is the lamp of the wicked extinguished? How often does their misfortune come upon them? How often does God apportion pain to them in his anger?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:18 - How often are they like straw before the wind, and like chaff swept away by a whirlwind?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:19 - You may say, 'God stores up a man's punishment for his children!' Instead let him repay the man himself so that he may know it!

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:20 - Let his own eyes see his destruction; let him drink of the anger of the Almighty.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:21 - For what is his interest in his home after his death, when the number of his months has been broken off?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:22 - Can anyone teach God knowledge, since he judges those that are on high?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:23 - "One man dies in his full vigor, completely secure and prosperous,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:24 - his body well nourished, and the marrow of his bones moist.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:25 - And another man dies in bitterness of soul, never having tasted anything good.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:26 - Together they lie down in the dust, and worms cover over them both.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:27 - "Yes, I know what you are thinking, the schemes by which you would wrong me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:28 - For you say, 'Where now is the nobleman's house, and where are the tents in which the wicked lived?'

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:29 - Have you never questioned those who travel the roads? Do you not recognize their accounts -

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:30 - that the evil man is spared from the day of his misfortune, that he is delivered from the day of God's wrath?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:31 - No one denounces his conduct to his face; no one repays him for what he has done.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:32 - And when he is carried to the tombs, and watch is kept over the funeral mound,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:33 - The clods of the torrent valley are sweet to him; behind him everybody follows in procession, and before him goes a countless throng.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:34 - So how can you console me with your futile words? Nothing is left of your answers but deception!"
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Job Chapter 21 — Additional Translations:

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