Book 18 Job Chapter 021
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| 021:001 | But Job answered and said,   |
| 021:002 | Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations.   |
| 021:003 | Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on.   |
| 021:004 | As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled?   |
| 021:005 | Mark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth.   |
| 021:006 | Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh.   |
| 021:007 | Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?   |
| 021:008 | Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes.   |
| 021:009 | Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them.   |
| 021:010 | Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf.   |
| 021:011 | They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.   |
| 021:012 | They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ.   |
| 021:013 | They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.   |
| 021:014 | Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.   |
| 021:015 | What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?   |
| 021:016 | Lo, their good is not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me.   |
| 021:017 | How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and how oft cometh their destruction upon them! God distributeth sorrows in his anger.   |
| 021:018 | They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.   |
| 021:019 | God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know it.   |
| 021:020 | His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty.   |
| 021:021 | For what pleasure hath he in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off in the midst?   |
| 021:022 | Shall any teach God knowledge? seeing he judgeth those that are high.   |
| 021:023 | One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.   |
| 021:024 | His breasts are full of milk, and his bones are moistened with marrow.   |
| 021:025 | And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never eateth with pleasure.   |
| 021:026 | They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them.   |
| 021:027 | Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me.   |
| 021:028 | For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked?   |
| 021:029 | Have ye not asked them that go by the way? and do ye not know their tokens,   |
| 021:030 | That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.   |
| 021:031 | Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him what he hath done?   |
| 021:032 | Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb.   |
| 021:033 | The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, and every man shall draw after him, as there are innumerable before him.   |
| 021:034 | How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood? |