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Job 21 :: New International Version (NIV)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:1 - Then Job replied:

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:3 - Bear with me while I speak, and after I have spoken, mock on.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:4 - “Is my complaint directed to a human being? Why should I not be impatient?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:5 - Look at me and be appalled; clap your hand over your mouth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:6 - When I think about this, I am terrified; trembling seizes my body.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:7 - Why do the wicked live on, growing old and increasing in power?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:8 - They see their children established around them, their offspring before their eyes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:9 - Their homes are safe and free from fear; the rod of God is not on them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:10 - Their bulls never fail to breed; their cows calve and do not miscarry.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:11 - They send forth their children as a flock; their little ones dance about.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:12 - They sing to the music of timbrel and lyre; they make merry to the sound of the pipe.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:13 - They spend their years in prosperity and go down to the grave in peace.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:14 - Yet they say to God, ‘Leave us alone! We have no desire 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 by praying to him?’

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:16 - But their prosperity is not in their own hands, so I stand aloof from the plans of the wicked.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:17 - “Yet how often is the lamp of the wicked snuffed out? How often does calamity come upon them, the fate God allots in his anger?

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:19 - It is said, ‘God stores up the punishment of the wicked for their children.’ Let him repay the wicked, so that they themselves will experience it!

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:20 - Let their own eyes see their destruction; let them drink the cup of the wrath of the Almighty.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:21 - For what do they care about the families they leave behind when their allotted months come to an end?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:22 - “Can anyone teach knowledge to God, since he judges even the highest?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:23 - One person dies in full vigor, completely secure and at ease,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:24 - well nourished in body,[fn] bones rich with marrow.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:25 - Another dies in bitterness of soul, never having enjoyed anything good.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:26 - Side by side they lie in the dust, and worms cover them both.

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:28 - You say, ‘Where now is the house of the great, the tents where the wicked lived?’

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:29 - Have you never questioned those who travel? Have you paid no regard to their accounts—

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:30 - that the wicked are spared from the day of calamity, that they are delivered from[fn] the day of wrath?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:31 - Who denounces their conduct to their face? Who repays them for what they have done?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:32 - They are carried to the grave, and watch is kept over their tombs.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:33 - The soil in the valley is sweet to them; everyone follows after them, and a countless throng goes[fn] before them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:34 - “So how can you console me with your nonsense? Nothing is left of your answers but falsehood!”
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NIV Footnotes
Or in an instant
The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.
Or wicked are reserved for the day of calamity, / that they are brought forth to
Or them, / as a countless throng went
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Job Chapter 21 — Additional Translations:

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