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Job 21:1 (WEB)
Then Job answered,

Job 21:2 (WEB)
"Listen diligently to my speech. Let this be your consolation.

Job 21:3 (WEB)
Allow me, and I also will speak; After I have spoken, mock on.

Job 21:4 (WEB)
As for me, is my complaint to man? Why shouldn't I be impatient?

Job 21:5 (WEB)
Look at me, and be astonished. Lay your hand on your mouth.

Job 21:6 (WEB)
When I remember, I am troubled. Horror takes hold of my flesh.

Job 21:7 (WEB)
"Why do the wicked live, Become old, yes, and grow mighty in power?

Job 21:8 (WEB)
Their child is established with them in their sight, Their offspring before their eyes.

Job 21:9 (WEB)
Their houses are safe from fear, Neither is the rod of God upon them.

Job 21:10 (WEB)
Their bulls breed without fail. Their cows calve, and don't miscarry.

Job 21:11 (WEB)
They send forth their little ones like a flock. Their children dance.

Job 21:12 (WEB)
They sing to the tambourine and harp, And rejoice at the sound of the pipe.

Job 21:13 (WEB)
They spend their days in prosperity. In an instant they go down to Sheol.

Job 21:14 (WEB)
They tell God, 'Depart from us, For we don't want to know about your ways.

Job 21:15 (WEB)
What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What profit should we have, if we pray to him?'

Job 21:16 (WEB)
Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand: The counsel of the wicked is far from me.

Job 21:17 (WEB)
"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 21:18 (WEB)
That they are as stubble before the wind, As chaff that the storm carries away?

Job 21:19 (WEB)
You say, 'God lays up his iniquity for his children.' Let him recompense it to himself, that he may know it.

Job 21:20 (WEB)
Let his own eyes see his destruction. Let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.

Job 21:21 (WEB)
For what does he care for his house after him, When the number of his months is cut off?

Job 21:22 (WEB)
"Shall any teach God knowledge, Seeing he judges those who are high?

Job 21:23 (WEB)
One dies in his full strength, Being wholly at ease and quiet.

Job 21:24 (WEB)
His pails are full of milk. The marrow of his bones is moistened.

Job 21:25 (WEB)
Another dies in bitterness of soul, And never tastes of good.

Job 21:26 (WEB)
They lie down alike in the dust, The worm covers them.

Job 21:27 (WEB)
"Behold, I know your thoughts, The devices with which you would wrong me.

Job 21:28 (WEB)
For you say, 'Where is the house of the prince? Where is the tent in which the wicked lived?'

Job 21:29 (WEB)
Haven't you asked wayfaring men? Don't you know their evidences,

Job 21:30 (WEB)
That the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity? That they are led forth to the day of wrath?

Job 21:31 (WEB)
Who shall declare his way to his face? Who shall repay him what he has done?

Job 21:32 (WEB)
Yet shall he be borne to the grave, Men shall keep watch over the tomb.

Job 21:33 (WEB)
The clods of the valley shall be sweet to him. All men shall draw after him, As there were innumerable before him.

Job 21:34 (WEB)
So how can you comfort me with nonsense, Seeing that in your answers there remains only falsehood?"

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