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Job 21
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1 Then Job answered:
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2 “Listen carefully to my words; let this be your consolation to me.TOSKJob 21:2
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3 Bear with me while I speak; then, after I have spoken, you may go on mocking.TOSKJob 21:3
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4 Is my complaint against a man? Then why should I not be impatient?TOSKJob 21:4
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5 Look at me and be appalled; put your hand over your mouth.TOSKJob 21:5
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6 When I remember, terror takes hold, and my body trembles in horror.TOSKJob 21:6
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7 Why do the wicked live on, growing old and increasing in power?TOSKJob 21:7
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8 Their descendants are established around them, and their offspring before their eyes.TOSKJob 21:8
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9 Their homes are safe from fear; no rod of punishment from God is upon them.TOSKJob 21:9
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10 Their bulls breed without fail; their cows bear calves and do not miscarry.TOSKJob 21:10
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11 They send forth their little ones like a flock; their children skip about,TOSKJob 21:11
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12 singing to the tambourine and lyre and making merry at the sound of the flute.TOSKJob 21:12
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13 They spend their days in prosperity and go down to Sheol in peace.TOSKJob 21:13
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14 Yet they say to God: ‘Leave us alone! For we have no desire to know Your ways.TOSKJob 21:14
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15 Who is the Almighty, that we should serve Him, and what would we gain if we pray to Him?’TOSKJob 21:15
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16 Still, their prosperity is not in their own hands, so I stay far from the counsel of the wicked.TOSKJob 21:16
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17 How often is the lamp of the wicked put out? Does disaster come upon them? Does God, in His anger, apportion destruction?TOSKJob 21:17
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18 Are they like straw before the wind, like chaff swept away by a storm?TOSKJob 21:18
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19 It is said that God lays up one's punishment for his children. Let God repay the man himself, so he will know it.IPDeuteronomy 5:9 Deuteronomy 7:10TOSKJob 21:19
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20 Let his eyes see his own destruction; let him drink for himself the wrath of the Almighty.TOSKJob 21:20
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21 For what does he care about his household after him, when the number of his months has run out?TOSKJob 21:21
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22 Can anyone teach knowledge to God, since He judges those on high?TOSKJob 21:22
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23 One man dies full of vigor, completely secure and at ease.TOSKJob 21:23
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24 His body is well nourished, and his bones are rich with marrow.TOSKJob 21:24
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25 Yet another man dies in the bitterness of his soul, having never tasted prosperity.TOSKJob 21:25
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26 But together they lie down in the dust, and worms cover them both.TOSKJob 21:26
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27 Behold, I know your thoughts full well, the schemes by which you would wrong me.TOSKJob 21:27
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28 For you say, ‘Where now is the nobleman’s house, and where are the tents in which the wicked dwell?’TOSKJob 21:28
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29 Have you never asked those who travel the roads? Do you not accept their reports?TOSKJob 21:29
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30 Indeed, the evil man is spared from the day of calamity, delivered from the day of wrath.TOSKJob 21:30
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31 Who denounces his behavior to his face? Who repays him for what he has done?TOSKJob 21:31
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32 He is carried to the grave, and watch is kept over his tomb.TOSKJob 21:32
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33 The clods of the valley are sweet to him; everyone follows behind him, and those before him are without number.TOSKJob 21:33
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34 So how can you comfort me with empty words? For your answers remain full of falsehood.”TOSKJob 21:34