Job Chapter 21

• Job 21:1
  Job.
• Job 21:2
  Then Job answered,
• Job 21:3
  “Listen diligently to my speech. Let this be your consolation.
• Job 21:4
  Allow me, and I also will speak. After I have spoken, mock on.
• Job 21:5
  As for me, is my complaint to man? Why shouldn’t I be impatient?
• Job 21:6
  Look at me, and be astonished. Lay your hand on your mouth.
• Job 21:7
  When I remember, I am troubled. Horror takes hold of my flesh.
• Job 21:8
  “Why do the wicked live, become old, yes, and grow mighty in power?
• Job 21:9
  Their child is established with them in their sight, their offspring before their eyes.
• Job 21:10
  Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them.
• Job 21:11
  Their bulls breed without fail. Their cows calve, and don’t miscarry.
• Job 21:12
  They send out their little ones like a flock. Their children dance.
• Job 21:13
  They sing to the tambourine and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the pipe.
• Job 21:14
  They spend their days in prosperity. In an instant they go down to Sheol.
• Job 21:15
  They tell God, ‘Depart from us, for we don’t want to know about your ways.
• Job 21:16
  What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What profit should we have, if we pray to him?’
• Job 21:17
  Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand. The counsel of the wicked is far from me.
• Job 21:18
  “How often is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out, that their calamity comes on them, that God distributes sorrows in his anger?
• Job 21:19
  How often is it that they are as stubble before the wind, as chaff that the storm carries away?
• Job 21:20
  You say, ‘God lays up his iniquity for his children.’ Let him recompense it to himself, that he may know it.
• Job 21:21
  Let his own eyes see his destruction. Let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
• Job 21:22
  For what does he care for his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off?
• Job 21:23
  “Shall any teach God knowledge, since he judges those who are high?
• Job 21:24
  One dies in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.
• Job 21:25
  His pails are full of milk. The marrow of his bones is moistened.
• Job 21:26
  Another dies in bitterness of soul, and never tastes of good.
• Job 21:27
  They lie down alike in the dust. The worm covers them.
• Job 21:28
  “Behold, I know your thoughts, the plans with which you would wrong me.
• Job 21:29
  For you say, ‘Where is the house of the prince? Where is the tent in which the wicked lived?’
• Job 21:30
  Haven’t you asked wayfaring men? Don’t you know their evidences,
• Job 21:31
  that the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity, that they are led out to the day of wrath?
• Job 21:32
  Who will declare his way to his face? Who will repay him what he has done?
• Job 21:33
  Yet he will be borne to the grave. Men will keep watch over the tomb.
• Job 21:34
  The clods of the valley will be sweet to him. All men will draw after him, as there were innumerable before him.
• Job 21:35
  So how can you comfort me with nonsense, because in your answers there remains only falsehood?”