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Job 21 :: Webster's Bible (WEB)

Job 21:1But Job answered and said,
Job 21:2Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations.
Job 21:3Suffer me that I may speak; and after I have spoken, mock on.
Job 21:4As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled?
Job 21:5Mark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth.
Job 21:6Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh.
Job 21:7Why do the wicked live, become old, and, are mighty in power?
Job 21:8Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes.
Job 21:9Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them.
Job 21:10Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf.
Job 21:11They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.
Job 21:12They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ.
Job 21:13They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.
Job 21:14Therefore they say to God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.
Job 21:15What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray to him?
Job 21:16Lo, their good is not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
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 21:18They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.
Job 21:19God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know it.
Job 21:20His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
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 21:22Shall any teach God knowledge? seeing he judgeth those that are high.
Job 21:23One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.
Job 21:24His breasts are full of milk, and his bones are moistened with marrow.
Job 21:25And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never eateth with pleasure.
Job 21:26They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them.
Job 21:27Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me.
Job 21:28For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked?
Job 21:29Have ye not asked them that go by the way? and do ye not know their tokens,
Job 21:30That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they will be brought forth to the day of wrath.
Job 21:31Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him what he hath done?
Job 21:32Yet he shall be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb.
Job 21:33The clods of the valley will be sweet to him, and every man will draw after him, as there are innumerable before him.
Job 21:34How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood?
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