Job 21 :: King James Version (KJV)

Job Says God Will Deal with the Wicked

Job 21:1

Job 21:1But Job answered and said,

Job 21:2

Job 21:2Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations.

Job 21:3

Job 21:3Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on.

Job 21:4

Job 21:4As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled?

Job 21:5

Job 21:5Mark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth.

Job 21:6

Job 21:6Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh.

Job 21:7

Job 21:7Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?

Job 21:8

Job 21:8Their seed is established in their sight with them, and 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 bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf.

Job 21:11

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

Job 21:12

Job 21:12They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ.

Job 21:13

Job 21:13They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.

Job 21:14

Job 21:14Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.

Job 21:15

Job 21:15What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?

Job 21:16

Job 21:16Lo, their good is not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

Job 21:17

Job 21:17How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and how oft cometh their destruction upon them! God distributeth sorrows in his anger.

Job 21:18

Job 21:18They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.

Job 21:19

Job 21:19God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know it.

Job 21:20

Job 21:20His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty.

Job 21:21

Job 21:21For what pleasure hath he in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off in the midst?

Job 21:22

Job 21:22Shall any teach God knowledge? seeing he judgeth those that are high.

Job 21:23

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

Job 21:24

Job 21:24His breasts are full of milk, and his bones are moistened with marrow.

Job 21:25

Job 21:25And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never eateth with pleasure.

Job 21:26

Job 21:26They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them.

Job 21:27

Job 21:27Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me.

Job 21:28

Job 21:28For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked?

Job 21:29

Job 21:29Have ye not asked them that go by the way? and do ye not know their tokens,

Job 21:30

Job 21:30That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.

Job 21:31

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

Job 21:32

Job 21:32Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb.

Job 21:33

Job 21:33The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, and every man shall draw after him, as there are innumerable before him.

Job 21:34

Job 21:34How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood?

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Job 21 :: King James Version (KJV)

Job Says God Will Deal with the Wicked

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