Job 21

¹But Job answered and said,SelectedJob 21:1CopyShareAsk

²Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations.SelectedJob 21:2CopyShareAsk

³Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on.SelectedJob 21:3CopyShareAsk

⁴As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled?SelectedJob 21:4CopyShareAsk

⁵Mark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth.SelectedJob 21:5CopyShareAsk

⁶Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh.SelectedJob 21:6CopyShareAsk

⁷Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?SelectedJob 21:7CopyShareAsk

⁸Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes.SelectedJob 21:8CopyShareAsk

⁹Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them.SelectedJob 21:9CopyShareAsk

¹⁰Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf.SelectedJob 21:10CopyShareAsk

¹¹They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.SelectedJob 21:11CopyShareAsk

¹²They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ.SelectedJob 21:12CopyShareAsk

¹³They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.SelectedJob 21:13CopyShareAsk

¹⁴Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.SelectedJob 21:14CopyShareAsk

¹⁵What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?SelectedJob 21:15CopyShareAsk

¹⁶Lo, their good is not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me.SelectedJob 21:16CopyShareAsk

¹⁷How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and how oft cometh their destruction upon them! God distributeth sorrows in his anger.SelectedJob 21:17CopyShareAsk

¹⁸They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.SelectedJob 21:18CopyShareAsk

¹⁹God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know it.SelectedJob 21:19CopyShareAsk

²⁰His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty.SelectedJob 21:20CopyShareAsk

²¹For what pleasure hath he in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off in the midst?SelectedJob 21:21CopyShareAsk

²²Shall any teach God knowledge? seeing he judgeth those that are high.SelectedJob 21:22CopyShareAsk

²³One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.SelectedJob 21:23CopyShareAsk

²⁴His breasts are full of milk, and his bones are moistened with marrow.SelectedJob 21:24CopyShareAsk

²⁵And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never eateth with pleasure.SelectedJob 21:25CopyShareAsk

²⁶They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them.SelectedJob 21:26CopyShareAsk

²⁷Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me.SelectedJob 21:27CopyShareAsk

²⁸For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked?SelectedJob 21:28CopyShareAsk

²⁹Have ye not asked them that go by the way? and do ye not know their tokens,SelectedJob 21:29CopyShareAsk

³⁰That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.SelectedJob 21:30CopyShareAsk

³¹Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him what he hath done?SelectedJob 21:31CopyShareAsk

³²Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb.SelectedJob 21:32CopyShareAsk

³³The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, and every man shall draw after him, as there are innumerable before him.SelectedJob 21:33CopyShareAsk

³⁴How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood?SelectedJob 21:34CopyShareAsk