Job 21 :: Hebrew Names Version (HNV)

Job Says God Will Deal with the Wicked

Job 21:1

Job 21:1Then Iyov answered,

Job 21:2

Job 21:2"Listen diligently to my speech. Let this be your consolation.

Job 21:3

Job 21:3Allow me, and I also will speak; After I have spoken, mock on.

Job 21:4

Job 21:4As for me, is my complaint to man? Why shouldn't I be impatient?

Job 21:5

Job 21:5Look at me, and be astonished. Lay your hand on your mouth.

Job 21:6

Job 21:6When I remember, I am troubled. Horror takes hold of my flesh.

Job 21:7

Job 21:7"Why do the wicked live, Become old, yes, and grow mighty in power?

Job 21:8

Job 21:8Their child is established with them in their sight, Their offspring before their eyes.

Job 21:9

Job 21:9Their houses are safe from fear, Neither is the rod of God upon them.

Job 21:10

Job 21:10Their bulls breed without fail. Their cows calve, and don't miscarry.

Job 21:11

Job 21:11They send forth their little ones like a flock. Their children dance.

Job 21:12

Job 21:12They sing to the tambourine and harp, And rejoice at the sound of the pipe.

Job 21:13

Job 21:13They spend their days in prosperity. In an instant they go down to She'ol.

Job 21:14

Job 21:14They tell God, 'Depart from us, For we don't want to know about your ways.

Job 21:15

Job 21:15What is Shaddai, that we should serve him? What profit should we have, if we pray to him?'

Job 21:16

Job 21:16Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand: The counsel of the wicked is far from me.

Job 21:17

Job 21:17"How often is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out? That their calamity comes on them? That God distributes sorrows in his anger?

Job 21:18

Job 21:18That they are as stubble before the wind, As chaff that the storm carries away?

Job 21:19

Job 21:19You say, 'God lays up his iniquity for his children.' Let him recompense it to himself, that he may know it.

Job 21:20

Job 21:20Let his own eyes see his destruction. Let him drink of the wrath of Shaddai.

Job 21:21

Job 21:21For what does he care for his house after him, When the number of his months is cut off?

Job 21:22

Job 21:22"Shall any teach God knowledge, Seeing he judges those who are high?

Job 21:23

Job 21:23One dies in his full strength, Being wholly at ease and quiet.

Job 21:24

Job 21:24His pails are full of milk. The marrow of his bones is moistened.

Job 21:25

Job 21:25Another dies in bitterness of soul, And never tastes of good.

Job 21:26

Job 21:26They lie down alike in the dust, The worm covers them.

Job 21:27

Job 21:27"Behold, I know your thoughts, The devices with which you would wrong me.

Job 21:28

Job 21:28For you say, 'Where is the house of the prince? Where is the tent in which the wicked lived?'

Job 21:29

Job 21:29Haven't you asked wayfaring men? Don't you know their evidences,

Job 21:30

Job 21:30That the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity? That they are led forth to the day of wrath?

Job 21:31

Job 21:31Who shall declare his way to his face? Who shall repay him what he has done?

Job 21:32

Job 21:32Yet shall he be borne to the grave, Men shall keep watch over the tomb.

Job 21:33

Job 21:33The clods of the valley shall be sweet to him. All men shall draw after him, As there were innumerable before him.

Job 21:34

Job 21:34So how can you comfort me with nonsense, Seeing that in your answers there remains only falsehood?"

The Hebrew Names Version is based off the World English Bible, an update of the American Standard Version of 1901. This version of the Bible is in the public domain.

Job 21 :: Hebrew Names Version (HNV)

Job Says God Will Deal with the Wicked

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