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Job 21 :: Revised Standard Version (RSV)

Job 21:1

Job 21:1Then Job answered:

Job 21:2

Job 21:2"Listen carefully to my words, and let this be your consolation.

Job 21:3

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

Job 21:4

Job 21:4As for me, is my complaint against man? Why should I not be impatient?

Job 21:5

Job 21:5Look at me, and be appalled, and lay your hand upon your mouth.

Job 21:6

Job 21:6When I think of it I am dismayed, and shuddering seizes my flesh.

Job 21:7

Job 21:7Why do the wicked live, reach old age, and grow mighty in power?

Job 21:8

Job 21:8Their children are established in their presence, and their offspring before their eyes.

Job 21:9

Job 21:9Their houses are safe from fear, and no rod of God is upon them.

Job 21:10

Job 21:10Their bull breeds without fail; their cow calves, and does not cast 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 sing to the tambourine and the lyre, and rejoice to the sound of the pipe.

Job 21:13

Job 21:13They spend their days in prosperity, and in peace they go down to Sheol.

Job 21:14

Job 21:14They say to God, 'Depart from us! We do not desire the knowledge of thy ways.

Job 21:15

Job 21:15What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? And what profit do we get if we pray to him?'

Job 21:16

Job 21:16Behold, is not their prosperity 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 upon them? That God distributes pains in his anger?

Job 21:18

Job 21:18That they are like straw before the wind, and like chaff that the storm carries away?

Job 21:19

Job 21:19You say, 'God stores up their iniquity for their sons.' Let him recompense it to themselves, that they may know it.

Job 21:20

Job 21:20Let their own eyes see their destruction, and let them drink of the wrath of the Almighty.

Job 21:21

Job 21:21For what do they care for their houses after them, when the number of their months is cut off?

Job 21:22

Job 21:22Will any teach God knowledge, seeing that he judges those that are on high?

Job 21:23

Job 21:23One dies in full prosperity, being wholly at ease and secure,

Job 21:24

Job 21:24his body full of fat and the marrow of his bones moist.

Job 21:25

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

Job 21:26

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

Job 21:27

Job 21:27"Behold, I know your thoughts, and your schemes to 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 dwelt?'

Job 21:29

Job 21:29Have you not asked those who travel the roads, and do you not accept their testimony

Job 21:30

Job 21:30that the wicked man is spared in the day of calamity, that he is rescued in the day of wrath?

Job 21:31

Job 21:31Who declares his way to his face, and who requites him for what he has done?

Job 21:32

Job 21:32When he is borne to the grave, watch is kept over his tomb.

Job 21:33

Job 21:33The clods of the valley are sweet to him; all men follow after him, and those who go before him are innumerable.

Job 21:34

Job 21:34How then will you comfort me with empty nothings? There is nothing left of your answers but falsehood."
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