21:1 | | But Job answered and said, |
21:2 | | Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations. |
21:3 | | Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on. |
21:4 | | As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled? |
21:5 | | Mark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth. |
21:6 | | Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh. |
21:7 | | Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power? |
21:8 | | Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes. |
21:9 | | Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them. |
21:10 | | Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf. |
21:11 | | They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance. |
21:12 | | They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ. |
21:13 | | They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave. |
21:14 | | Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways. |
21:15 | | What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him? |
21:16 | | Lo, their good is not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me. |
21:17 | | How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and how oft cometh their destruction upon them! God distributeth sorrows in his anger. |
21:18 | | They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away. |
21:19 | | God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know it. |
21:20 | | His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty. |
21:21 | | For what pleasure hath he in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off in the midst? |
21:22 | | Shall any teach God knowledge? seeing he judgeth those that are high. |
21:23 | | One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet. |
21:24 | | His breasts are full of milk, and his bones are moistened with marrow. |
21:25 | | And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never eateth with pleasure. |
21:26 | | They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them. |
21:27 | | Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me. |
21:28 | | For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked? |
21:29 | | Have ye not asked them that go by the way? and do ye not know their tokens, |
21:30 | | That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath. |
21:31 | | Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him what he hath done? |
21:32 | | Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb. |
21:33 | | The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, and every man shall draw after him, as there are innumerable before him. |
21:34 | | How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood? |