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let this be the consolation you offer me. <td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="btext2">“Keep listening to my words, and let this be your comfort.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Bear with me and I will speak, and after I have spoken you may mock. <td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Bear with me, and I will speak, and after I have spoken, mock on.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Is my complaint against a man? If so, why should I not be impatient? <td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext2">As for me, is my complaint against man? Why should I not be impatient?</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Look at me and be appalled; put your hands over your mouths. <td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Look at me and be appalled, and lay your hand over your mouth.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext1">For, when I think about this, I am terrified and my body feels a shudder. <td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext2">When I remember, I am dismayed, and shuddering seizes my flesh.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext1">"Why do the wicked go on living, grow old, even increase in power? <td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Why do the wicked live, reach old age, and grow mighty in power?</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Their children are firmly established in their presence, their offspring before their eyes. <td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Their offspring are established in their presence, and their descendants before their eyes.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Their houses are safe and without fear; and no rod of punishment from God is upon them. <td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Their houses are safe from fear, and no rod of God is upon them.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Their bulls breed without fail; their cows calve and do not miscarry. <td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Their bull breeds without fail; their cow calves and does not miscarry.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext1">They allow their children to run like a flock; their little ones dance about. <td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext2">They send out their little boys like a flock, and their children dance.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="btext1">They sing to the accompaniment of tambourine and harp, and make merry to the sound of the flute. <td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="btext2">They sing to the tambourine and the lyre and rejoice to the sound of the pipe.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="btext1">They live out their years in prosperity and go down to the grave in peace. <td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="btext2">They spend their days in prosperity, and in peace they go down to Sheol.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="btext1">So they say to God, 'Turn away from us! We do not want to know your ways. <td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="btext2">They say to God, ‘Depart from us! We do not desire the knowledge of your ways.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What would we gain if we were to pray to him?' <td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="btext2">What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? And what profit do we get if we pray to him?’</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="btext1">But their prosperity is not their own doing. The counsel of the wicked is far from me! <td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Behold, is not their prosperity in their hand? The counsel of the wicked is far from me.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="btext1">"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? <td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="btext2">“How often is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out? That their calamity comes upon them? That God distributes pains in his anger?</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="btext1">How often are they like straw before the wind, and like chaff swept away by a whirlwind? <td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="btext2">That they are like straw before the wind, and like chaff that the storm carries away?</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="btext1">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! <td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="btext2">You say, ‘God stores up their iniquity for their children.’ Let him pay it out to them, that they may know it.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Let his own eyes see his destruction; let him drink of the anger of the Almighty. <td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Let their own eyes see their destruction, and let them drink of the wrath of the Almighty.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="btext1">For what is his interest in his home after his death, when the number of his months has been broken off? <td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="btext2">For what do they care for their houses after them, when the number of their months is cut off?</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Can anyone teach God knowledge, since he judges those that are on high? <td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Will any teach God knowledge, seeing that he judges those who are on high?</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span><span class="btext1">"One man dies in his full vigor, completely secure and prosperous, <td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span><span class="btext2">One dies in his full vigor, being wholly at ease and secure,</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span><span class="btext1">his body well nourished, and the marrow of his bones moist. <td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span><span class="btext2">his pails full of milk and the marrow of his bones moist.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span><span class="btext1">And another man dies in bitterness of soul, never having tasted anything good. <td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Another dies in bitterness of soul, never having tasted of prosperity.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Together they lie down in the dust, and worms cover over them both. <td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span><span class="btext2">They lie down alike in the dust, and the worms cover them.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span><span class="btext1">"Yes, I know what you are thinking, the schemes by which you would wrong me. <td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span><span class="btext2">“Behold, I know your thoughts and your schemes to wrong me.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span><span class="btext1">For you say, 'Where now is the nobleman's house, and where are the tents in which the wicked lived?' <td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span><span class="btext2">For you say, ‘Where is the house of the prince? Where is the tent in which the wicked lived?’</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Have you never questioned those who travel the roads? Do you not recognize their accounts--<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Have you not asked those who travel the roads, and do you not accept their testimony</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span><span class="btext1">that the evil man is spared from the day of his misfortune, that he is delivered from the day of God's wrath? <td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span><span class="btext2">that the evil man is spared in the day of calamity, that he is rescued in the day of wrath?</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span><span class="btext1">No one denounces his conduct to his face; no one repays him for what he has done. <td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Who declares his way to his face, and who repays him for what he has done?</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span><span class="btext1">And when he is carried to the tombs, and watch is kept over the funeral mound, <td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span><span class="btext2">When he is carried to the grave, watch is kept over his tomb.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span><span class="btext1">The clods of the torrent valley are sweet to him; behind him everybody follows in procession, and before him goes a countless throng. <td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span><span class="btext2">The clods of the valley are sweet to him; all mankind follows after him, and those who go before him are innumerable.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span><span class="btext1">So how can you console me with your futile words? Nothing is left of your answers but deception!" <td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span><span class="btext2">How then will you comfort me with empty nothings? There is nothing left of your answers but falsehood.”</span></td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="copy" width="50%"><a href "//netbible.com/">NET Bible copyright © 1996-2006 by Biblical Studies Press, L.L.C. //netbible.com. Used by permission. All rights reserved.</a></td><td class="copy" width="50%">ESV Text Edition: 2016. The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="//www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. The ESV® text has been reproduced in cooperation with and by permission of Good News Publishers. Unauthorized reproduction of this publication is prohibited. 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