Read Job 21

World English Bible · 34 verses

1. ¹ Then Job answered,This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
2. ² “Listen diligently to my speech. Let this be your consolation.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
3. ³ Allow me, and I also will speak. After I have spoken, mock on.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
4. ⁴ As for me, is my complaint to man? Why shouldn’t I be impatient?This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
5. ⁵ Look at me, and be astonished. Lay your hand on your mouth.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
6. ⁶ When I remember, I am troubled. Horror takes hold of my flesh.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
7. ⁷ “Why do the wicked live, become old, yes, and grow mighty in power?This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
8. ⁸ Their child is established with them in their sight, their offspring before their eyes.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
9. ⁹ Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
10. ¹⁰ Their bulls breed without fail. Their cows calve, and don’t miscarry.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
11. ¹¹ They send out their little ones like a flock. Their children dance.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
12. ¹² They sing to the tambourine and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the pipe.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
13. ¹³ They spend their days in prosperity. In an instant they go down to Sheol.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
14. ¹⁴ They tell God, ‘Depart from us, for we don’t want to know about your ways.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
15. ¹⁵ What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What profit should we have, if we pray to him?’This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
16. ¹⁶ Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand. The counsel of the wicked is far from me.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
17. ¹⁷ “How often is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out, that their calamity comes on them, that God distributes sorrows in his anger?This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
18. ¹⁸ How often is it that they are as stubble before the wind, as chaff that the storm carries away?This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
19. ¹⁹ You say, ‘God lays up his iniquity for his children.’ Let him recompense it to himself, that he may know it.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
20. ²⁰ Let his own eyes see his destruction. Let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
21. ²¹ For what does he care for his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off?This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
22. ²² “Shall any teach God knowledge, since he judges those who are high?This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
23. ²³ One dies in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
24. ²⁴ His pails are full of milk. The marrow of his bones is moistened.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
25. ²⁵ Another dies in bitterness of soul, and never tastes of good.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
26. ²⁶ They lie down alike in the dust. The worm covers them.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
27. ²⁷ “Behold, I know your thoughts, the plans with which you would wrong me.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
28. ²⁸ For you say, ‘Where is the house of the prince? Where is the tent in which the wicked lived?’This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
29. ²⁹ Haven’t you asked wayfaring men? Don’t you know their evidences,This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
30. ³⁰ that the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity, that they are led out to the day of wrath?This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
31. ³¹ Who will declare his way to his face? Who will repay him what he has done?This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
32. ³² Yet he will be borne to the grave. Men will keep watch over the tomb.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
33. ³³ The clods of the valley will be sweet to him. All men will draw after him, as there were innumerable before him.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
34. ³⁴ So how can you comfort me with nonsense, because in your answers there remains only falsehood?”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.

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