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Job|21:1|-|Then Job answered and said,
Job|21:2|-|Listen carefully to my word,And let this be your consolations.
Job|21:3|-|Bear with me, and I will speak;And after I have spoken, mock on.
Job|21:4|-|As for me, is my complaint to man?And why should my spirit not be impatient?
Job|21:5|-|Look at me and be appalled;And put your hand over your mouth.
Job|21:6|-|Even when I remember, I am troubled,And horror takes hold of my flesh.
Job|21:7|-|Why do the |a|wicked live,Grow old, even become mighty in riches?
Job|21:8|-|Their seed is established with them in their sight,And their offspring, before their eyes.
Job|21:9|-|Their houses are free from dread,And the |a|rod of God is not upon them.
Job|21:10|-||1|Their bull breeds and does not fail;|1|Their cow calves and does not miscarry.
Job|21:11|-|They send forth their little ones like a herd,And their children dance.
Job|21:12|-|They lift up their voices to the tambourine and lyre,And they rejoice at the sound of the flute.
Job|21:13|-|They spend their days in prosperity,And in a moment they go down into |a|Sheol.
Job|21:14|-|And they say unto God, |a|Depart from us,For we do not desire the knowledge of Your ways.
Job|21:15|-||a|What is the Almighty, that we should serve Him?And what profit is there, that we should pray to Him?
Job|21:16|-|Indeed, their prosperity is not in their own hand.The counsel of the wicked is far from |1|Him.
Job|21:17|-|How often is the lamp of the wicked put out,So that their calamity comes upon them,
So that |1|God distributes sorrows in His anger?
Job|21:18|-|Do they become like straw before the windAnd like chaff that the storm carries off?
Job|21:19|-|You say, God stores up the punishment of his iniquity for his children.I say, Let Him recompense him, so that he knows it.
Job|21:20|-|Let his eyes see his destruction,And let him drink the wrath of the Almighty.
Job|21:21|-|For what is there for him to delight in, in his house after him,When the number of his months is cut off?
Job|21:22|-|Will someone teach knowledge to God,Seeing that He judges those who are on high?
Job|21:23|-|One dies in his full strength,Being completely at ease and quiet;
Job|21:24|-|His pails are full of milk,And the marrow of his bones is moist.
Job|21:25|-|But another dies in bitterness of soulAnd does not taste of good.
Job|21:26|-|They lie down alike in the |a|dust,And the worm covers them.
Job|21:27|-|Indeed, I know your thoughts,And the devices by which you would wrong me.
Job|21:28|-|For you say, Where is the house of the prince?Where is the tent of the dwellings of the wicked?
Job|21:29|-|Have you not asked those who travel the roads?And do you not regard their evidence,
Job|21:30|-|That the wicked man is spared in the day of calamity,That they are led forth at the day of overflowing wrath?
Job|21:31|-|Who will declare his way to his face?And who will repay him what he has done?
Job|21:32|-|When he is borne to the grave,A watch is kept over the tomb.
Job|21:33|-|The clods of the valley are sweet to him;And all men go in procession after him,
And those who went before him are without number.
Job|21:34|-|Why then do you comfort me with vanity?For your responses leave only falsehood behind.
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