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Job 21
Job 21
English NET Bible - 2005 (New English Translation)
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Then Job answered:
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“Listen carefully to my words; let this be the consolation you offer me.
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Bear with me and I will speak, and after I have spoken you may mock.
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Is my complaint against a man? If so, why should I not be impatient?
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Look at me and be appalled; put your hands over your mouths.
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For, when I think about this, I am terrified and my body feels a shudder.
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“Why do the wicked go on living, grow old, even increase in power?
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Their children are firmly established in their presence, their offspring before their eyes.
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Their houses are safe and without fear; and no rod of punishment from God is upon them.
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Their bulls breed without fail; their cows calve and do not miscarry.
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They allow their children to run like a flock; their little ones dance about.
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They sing to the accompaniment of tambourine and harp, and make merry to the sound of the flute.
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They live out their years in prosperity and go down to the grave in peace.
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So they say to God, ‘Turn away from us! We do not want to know your ways.
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Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What would we gain if we were to pray to him?’
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But their prosperity is not their own doing. The counsel of the wicked is far from me!
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“How often is the lamp of the wicked extinguished? How often does their misfortune come upon them? How often does God apportion pain to them in his anger?
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How often are they like straw before the wind, and like chaff swept away by a whirlwind?
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You may say, ‘God stores up a man’s punishment for his children!’ Instead let him repay the man himself so that he may know it!
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Let his own eyes see his destruction; let him drink of the anger of the Almighty.
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For what is his interest in his home after his death, when the number of his months has been broken off?
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Can anyone teach God knowledge, since he judges those that are on high?
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“One man dies in his full vigor, completely secure and prosperous,
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his body well nourished, and the marrow of his bones moist.
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And another man dies in bitterness of soul, never having tasted anything good.
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Together they lie down in the dust, and worms cover over them both.
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“Yes, I know what you are thinking, the schemes by which you would wrong me.
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For you say, ‘Where now is the nobleman’s house, and where are the tents in which the wicked lived?’
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Have you never questioned those who travel the roads? Do you not recognize their accounts —
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that the evil man is spared from the day of his misfortune, that he is delivered from the day of God’s wrath?
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No one denounces his conduct to his face; no one repays him for what he has done.
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And when he is carried to the tombs, and watch is kept over the funeral mound,
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The clods of the torrent valley are sweet to him; behind him everybody follows in procession, and before him goes a countless throng.
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So how can you console me with your futile words? Nothing is left of your answers but deception!”
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