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Job 21
Job 21
English GNT (Good News Translation)
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Listen to what I am saying; that is all the comfort I ask from you.
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Give me a chance to speak and then, when I am through, sneer if you like.
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My quarrel is not with mortals; I have good reason to be impatient.
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Look at me. Isn't that enough to make you stare in shocked silence?
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When I think of what has happened to me, I am stunned, and I tremble and shake.
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Why does God let evil people live, let them grow old and prosper?
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They have children and grandchildren, and live to watch them all grow up.
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God does not bring disaster on their homes; they never have to live in terror.
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Yes, all their cattle breed and give birth without trouble.
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Their children run and play like lambs
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and dance to the music of harps and flutes.
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They live out their lives in peace and quietly die without suffering.
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The wicked tell God to leave them alone; they don't want to know his will for their lives.
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They think there is no need to serve God nor any advantage in praying to him.
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They claim they succeed by their own strength, but their way of thinking I can't accept.
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Was a wicked person's light ever put out? Did one of them ever meet with disaster? Did God ever punish the wicked in anger
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and blow them away like straw in the wind, or like dust carried away in a storm?
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You claim God punishes a child for the sins of his father. No! Let God punish the sinners themselves; let him show that he does it because of their sins.
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Let sinners bear their own punishment; let them feel the wrath of Almighty God.
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When our lives are over, do we really care whether our children are happy?
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Can anyone teach God, who judges even those in high places?
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Some people stay healthy till the day they die; they die happy and at ease, their bodies well-nourished.
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Others have no happiness at all; they live and die with bitter hearts.
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But all alike die and are buried; they all are covered with worms.
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I know what spiteful thoughts you have.
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You ask, “Where are the homes of great people now, those who practiced evil?”
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Haven't you talked with people who travel? Don't you know the reports they bring back?
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On the day God is angry and punishes, it is the wicked who are always spared.
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There is no one to accuse the wicked or pay them back for all they have done.
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When they are carried to the graveyard, to their well-guarded tombs,
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thousands join the funeral procession, and even the earth lies gently on their bodies.
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And you! You try to comfort me with nonsense! Every answer you give is a lie!
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