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Job 21
Job 21
English NRSV 1989 - Only for website
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Then Job answered:
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"Listen carefully to my words, and let this be your consolation.
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Bear with me, and I will speak; then after I have spoken, mock on.
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As for me, is my complaint addressed to mortals? Why should I not be impatient?
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Look at me, and be appalled, and lay your hand upon your mouth.
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When I think of it I am dismayed, and shuddering seizes my flesh.
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Why do the wicked live on, reach old age, and grow mighty in power?
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Their children are established in their presence, and their offspring before their eyes.
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Their houses are safe from fear, and no rod of God is upon them.
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Their bull breeds without fail; their cow calves and never miscarries.
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They send out their little ones like a flock, and their children dance around.
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They sing to the tambourine and the lyre, and rejoice to the sound of the pipe.
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They spend their days in prosperity, and in peace they go down to Sheol.
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They say to God, 'Leave us alone! We do not desire to know your ways.
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What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? And what profit do we get if we pray to him?'
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Is not their prosperity indeed their own achievement? The plans of the wicked are repugnant to me.
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"How often is the lamp of the wicked put out? How often does calamity come upon them? How often does God distribute pains in his anger?
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How often are they like straw before the wind, and like chaff that the storm carries away?
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You say, 'God stores up their iniquity for their children.' Let it be paid back to them, so that they may know it.
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Let their own eyes see their destruction, and let them drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
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For what do they care for their household after them, when the number of their months is cut off?
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Will any teach God knowledge, seeing that he judges those that are on high?
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One dies in full prosperity, being wholly at ease and secure,
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his loins full of milk and the marrow of his bones moist.
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Another dies in bitterness of soul, never having tasted of good.
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They lie down alike in the dust, and the worms cover them.
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"Oh, I know your thoughts, and your schemes to wrong me.
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For you say, 'Where is the house of the prince? Where is the tent in which the wicked lived?'
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Have you not asked those who travel the roads, and do you not accept their testimony,
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that the wicked are spared in the day of calamity, and are rescued in the day of wrath?
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Who declares their way to their face, and who repays them for what they have done?
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When they are carried to the grave, a watch is kept over their tomb.
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The clods of the valley are sweet to them; everyone will follow after, and those who went before are innumerable.
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How then will you comfort me with empty nothings? There is nothing left of your answers but falsehood."
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