Job 21

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1. (Job 21:1) Then Job answered and said,
2. (Job 21:2) Hear diligently my speech; And let this be your consolations.
3. (Job 21:3) Suffer me, and I also will speak; And after that I have spoken, mock on.
4. (Job 21:4) As for me, is my complaint to man? And why should I not be impatient?
5. (Job 21:5) Mark me, and be astonished, And lay your hand upon your mouth.
6. (Job 21:6) Even when I remember I am troubled, And horror taketh hold on my flesh.
7. (Job 21:7) Wherefore do the wicked live, Become old, yea, wax mighty in power?
8. (Job 21:8) Their seed is established with them in their sight, And their offspring before their eyes.
9. (Job 21:9) Their houses are safe from fear, Neither is the rod of God upon them.
10. (Job 21:10) Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; Their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf.
11. (Job 21:11) They send forth their little ones like a flock, And their children dance.
12. (Job 21:12) They sing to the timbrel and harp, And rejoice at the sound of the pipe.
13. (Job 21:13) They spend their days in prosperity, And in a moment they go down to Sheol.
14. (Job 21:14) And they say unto God, Depart from us; For we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.
15. (Job 21:15) What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? And what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?
16. (Job 21:16) Lo, their prosperity is not in their hand: The counsel of the wicked is far from me.
17. (Job 21:17) @@How oft is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out? That their calamity cometh upon them? That @9God@7 distributeth sorrows in his anger?
18. (Job 21:18) That they are as stubble before the wind, And as chaff that the storm carrieth away?
19. (Job 21:19) @@@9Ye say@7, God layeth up his iniquity for his children. Let him recompense it unto himself, that he may know it:
20. (Job 21:20) Let his own eyes see his destruction, And let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
21. (Job 21:21) For what careth he for his house after him, When the number of his months is cut off?
22. (Job 21:22) Shall any teach God knowledge, Seeing he judgeth those that are high?
23. (Job 21:23) One dieth in his full strength, Being wholly at ease and quiet:
24. (Job 21:24) His pails are full of milk, And the marrow of his bones is moistened.
25. (Job 21:25) And another dieth in bitterness of soul, And never tasteth of good.
26. (Job 21:26) They lie down alike in the dust, And the worm covereth them.
27. (Job 21:27) Behold, I know your thoughts, And the devices wherewith ye would wrong me.
28. (Job 21:28) For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? And where is the tent wherein the wicked dwelt?
29. (Job 21:29) Have ye not asked wayfaring men? And do ye not know their evidences,
30. (Job 21:30) That the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity? That they are led forth to the day of wrath?
31. (Job 21:31) Who shall declare his way to his face? And who shall repay him what he hath done?
32. (Job 21:32) Yet shall he be borne to the grave, And men shall keep watch over the tomb.
33. (Job 21:33) The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, And all men shall draw after him, As there were innumerable before him.
34. (Job 21:34) @@How then comfort ye me in vain, Seeing in your answers there remaineth @9only@7 falsehood?