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