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Job

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Chapter 21

¹Then Job answered and said: ²“Listen carefully to my words, and let this be your comfort. ³Bear with me, and I will speak, and after I have spoken, mock on. ⁴As for me, is my complaint against man? Why should I not be impatient? ⁵Look at me and be appalled, and lay your hand over your mouth. ⁶When I remember, I am dismayed, and shuddering seizes my flesh. ⁷Why do the wicked live, reach old age, and grow mighty in power? ⁸Their offspring are established in their presence, and their descendants before their eyes. ⁹Their houses are safe from fear, and the rod of God is not upon them. ¹⁰Their bull breeds without fail; their cow calves and does not miscarry. ¹¹They send out their little ones like a flock, and their children dance. ¹²They sing to the tambourine and the lyre and rejoice to the sound of the pipe. ¹³They spend their days in prosperity, and in peace they go down to Sheol. ¹⁴They say to God, ‘Depart from us! We do not desire the knowledge of your ways. ¹⁵What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? And what profit do we get if we pray to him?’ ¹⁶Behold, is not their prosperity in their hand? The counsel of the wicked is far from me. ¹⁷“How often is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out? That their calamity comes upon them? That God distributes pains in his anger? ¹⁸That they are like straw before the wind, and like chaff that the storm carries away? ¹⁹You say, ‘God stores up his iniquity for his children.’ Let him repay it to himself, that he may know it. ²⁰Let his own eyes see his destruction, and let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty. ²¹For what interest does he have in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off? ²²Will any teach God knowledge, seeing that he judges those who are on high? ²³One dies in his full strength, being wholly at ease and secure, ²⁴his body full of fat and the marrow of his bones moist. ²⁵Another dies in bitterness of soul, having never tasted prosperity. ²⁶They lie down alike in the dust, and worms cover them. ²⁷“Behold, I know your thoughts and your schemes to wrong me. ²⁸For you say, ‘Where is the house of the prince? Where is the tent of the wicked?’ ²⁹Have you not asked those who travel the road, and do you not accept their testimony— ³⁰that the evil man is spared in the day of calamity, that he is rescued in the day of wrath? ³¹Who declares his way to his face, and who repays him for what he has done? ³²When he is carried to the grave, watch is kept over his tomb. ³³The clods of the valley are sweet to him; all mankind follows after him, and those who came before him were innumerable. ³⁴How then will you comfort me with empty nothings? There is nothing left of your answers but falsehood.”