Job 21 :: New International Version (NIV)

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Job 21:1

Job 21:1Then Job replied:

Job 21:2

Job 21:2“Listen carefully to my words; let this be the consolation you give me.

Job 21:3

Job 21:3Bear with me while I speak, and after I have spoken, mock on.

Job 21:4

Job 21:4“Is my complaint directed to a human being? Why should I not be impatient?

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Job 21:5Look at me and be appalled; clap your hand over your mouth.

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Job 21:6When I think about this, I am terrified; trembling seizes my body.

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Job 21:7Why do the wicked live on, growing old and increasing in power?

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Job 21:8They see their children established around them, their offspring before their eyes.

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

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Job 21:10Their bulls never fail to breed; their cows calve and do not miscarry.

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Job 21:11They send forth their children as a flock; their little ones dance about.

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Job 21:12They sing to the music of timbrel and lyre; they make merry to the sound of the pipe.

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

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Job 21:14Yet they say to God, ‘Leave us alone! We have no desire to know your ways.

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Job 21:15Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What would we gain by praying to him?’

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

Job 21:17

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

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Job 21:19It 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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Job 21:20Let their own eyes see their destruction; let them drink the cup of the wrath of the Almighty.

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

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Job 21:22“Can anyone teach knowledge to God, since he judges even the highest?

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Job 21:23One person dies in full vigor, completely secure and at ease,

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Job 21:24well nourished in body,[fn] bones rich with marrow.

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Job 21:25Another dies in bitterness of soul, never having enjoyed anything good.

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Job 21:26Side by side they lie in the dust, and worms cover them both.

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

Job 21:28

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

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Job 21:29Have you never questioned those who travel? Have you paid no regard to their accounts—

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

Job 21:31

Job 21:31Who denounces their conduct to their face? Who repays them for what they have done?

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Job 21:32They are carried to the grave, and watch is kept over their tombs.

Job 21:33

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

Job 21:34

Job 21:34“So how can you console me with your nonsense? Nothing is left of your answers but falsehood!”

See the NIV Preface (Especially for Parenthesis, Brackets, & Asterisks).

NIV Footnotes

(21:13)

Or in an instant

(21:24)

The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.

(21:30)

Or wicked are reserved for the day of calamity, / that they are brought forth to

(21:33)

Or them, / as a countless throng went

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

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Job 21 :: New International Version (NIV)

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