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Job 21 :: New Living Translation (NLT)

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Job’s Seventh Speech: A Response to Zophar

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:1 - Then Job spoke again:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:2 - “Listen closely to what I am saying.
That’s one consolation you can give me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:3 - Bear with me, and let me speak.
After I have spoken, you may resume mocking me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:4 - “My complaint is with God, not with people.
I have good reason to be so impatient.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:5 - Look at me and be stunned.
Put your hand over your mouth in shock.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:6 - When I think about what I am saying, I shudder.
My body trembles.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:7 - “Why do the wicked prosper,
growing old and powerful?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:8 - They live to see their children grow up and settle down,
and they enjoy their grandchildren.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:9 - Their homes are safe from every fear,
and God does not punish them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:10 - Their bulls never fail to breed.
Their cows bear calves and never miscarry.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:11 - They let their children frisk about like lambs.
Their little ones skip and dance.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:12 - They sing with tambourine and harp.
They celebrate to the sound of the flute.

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:14 - And yet they say to God, ‘Go away.
We want no part of you and your ways.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:15 - Who is the Almighty, and why should we obey him?
What good will it do us to pray?’

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:16 - (They think their prosperity is of their own doing,
but I will have nothing to do with that kind of thinking.)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:17 - “Yet the light of the wicked never seems to be extinguished.
Do they ever have trouble?
Does God distribute sorrows to them in anger?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:18 - Are they driven before the wind like straw?
Are they carried away by the storm like chaff?
Not at all!

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:19 - “‘Well,’ you say, ‘at least God will punish their children!’
But I say he should punish the ones who sin,
so that they understand his judgment.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:20 - Let them see their destruction with their own eyes.
Let them drink deeply of the anger of the Almighty.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:21 - For they will not care what happens to their family
after they are dead.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:22 - “But who can teach a lesson to God,
since he judges even the most powerful?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:23 - One person dies in prosperity,
completely comfortable and secure,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:24 - the picture of good health,
vigorous and fit.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:25 - Another person dies in bitter poverty,
never having tasted the good life.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:26 - But both are buried in the same dust,
both eaten by the same maggots.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:27 - “Look, I know what you’re thinking.
I know the schemes you plot against me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:28 - You will tell me of rich and wicked people
whose houses have vanished because of their sins.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:29 - But ask those who have been around,
and they will tell you the truth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:30 - Evil people are spared in times of calamity
and are allowed to escape disaster.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:31 - No one criticizes them openly
or pays them back for what they have done.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:32 - When they are carried to the grave,
an honor guard keeps watch at their tomb.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:33 - A great funeral procession goes to the cemetery.
Many pay their respects as the body is laid to rest,
and the earth gives sweet repose.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 21:34 - “How can your empty clichés comfort me?
All your explanations are lies!”
See the NLT Preface (Especially for Parenthesis, Brackets, & Asterisks).
NLT Footnotes
Hebrew to Sheol.
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Full copyright information is provided here. Visit the New Living Translation website.

For more information on this translation, see the NLT Preface.

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Job Chapter 21 — Additional Translations:

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