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title="Job 20">◄</a> Job 21 <a href="../job/22.htm" title="Job 22">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New International Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/niv/esv/job/21.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="sectionhead">Job</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/21-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Then Job replied:</p> <div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/21-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>“Listen carefully to my words;</p><p class="line2">let this be the consolation you give me.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/21-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Bear with me while I speak,</p><p class="line2">and after I have spoken, mock on.</p></div> <div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/21-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>“Is my complaint directed to a human being?</p><p class="line2">Why should I not be impatient?</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/21-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Look at me and be appalled;</p><p class="line2">clap your hand over your mouth.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/21-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>When I think about this, I am terrified;</p><p class="line2">trembling seizes my body.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/21-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Why do the wicked live on,</p><p class="line2">growing old and increasing in power?</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/21-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>They see their children established around them,</p><p class="line2">their offspring before their eyes.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/21-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Their homes are safe and free from fear;</p><p class="line2">the rod of God is not on them.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/21-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Their bulls never fail to breed;</p><p class="line2">their cows calve and do not miscarry.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/21-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>They send forth their children as a flock;</p><p class="line2">their little ones dance about.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/21-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>They sing to the music of timbrel and lyre;</p><p class="line2">they make merry to the sound of the pipe.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/21-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>They spend their years in prosperity</p><p class="line2">and go down to the grave in peace. <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or in an instant">a</a></sup></span> </p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/21-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Yet they say to God, ‘Leave us alone!</p><p class="line2">We have no desire to know your ways.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/21-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him?</p><p class="line2">What would we gain by praying to him?’</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/21-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>But their prosperity is not in their own hands,</p><p class="line2">so I stand aloof from the plans of the wicked.</p></div> <div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/21-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>“Yet how often is the lamp of the wicked snuffed out?</p><p class="line2">How often does calamity come upon them,</p><p class="line2">the fate God allots in his anger?</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/21-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>How often are they like straw before the wind,</p><p class="line2">like chaff swept away by a gale?</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/21-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>It is said, ‘God stores up the punishment of the wicked for their children.’</p><p class="line2">Let him repay the wicked, so that they themselves will experience it!</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/21-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Let their own eyes see their destruction;</p><p class="line2">let them drink the cup of the wrath of the Almighty.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/21-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>For what do they care about the families they leave behind</p><p class="line2">when their allotted months come to an end?</p></div> <div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/21-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>“Can anyone teach knowledge to God,</p><p class="line2">since he judges even the highest?</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/21-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>One person dies in full vigor,</p><p class="line2">completely secure and at ease,</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/21-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>well nourished in body, <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.">b</a></sup></span> </p><p class="line2">bones rich with marrow.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/21-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Another dies in bitterness of soul,</p><p class="line2">never having enjoyed anything good.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/21-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Side by side they lie in the dust,</p><p class="line2">and worms cover them both.</p></div> <div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/21-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>“I know full well what you are thinking,</p><p class="line2">the schemes by which you would wrong me.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/21-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>You say, ‘Where now is the house of the great,</p><p class="line2">the tents where the wicked lived?’</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/21-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>Have you never questioned those who travel?</p><p class="line2">Have you paid no regard to their accounts—</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/21-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>that the wicked are spared from the day of calamity,</p><p class="line2">that they are delivered from <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or wicked are reserved for the day of calamity, that they are brought forth to">c</a></sup></span> the day of wrath?</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/21-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>Who denounces their conduct to their face?</p><p class="line2">Who repays them for what they have done?</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/21-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>They are carried to the grave,</p><p class="line2">and watch is kept over their tombs.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/21-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>The soil in the valley is sweet to them;</p><p class="line2">everyone follows after them,</p><p class="line2">and a countless throng goes <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or them, as a countless throng went">d</a></sup></span> before them.</p></div> <div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/21-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>“So how can you console me with your nonsense?</p><p class="line2">Nothing is left of your answers but falsehood!”</p></div><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="footnotes"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">13</span> <span class="footnotebot">Or <i>in an instant</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">24</span> <span class="footnotebot">The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">30</span> <span class="footnotebot">Or <i>wicked are reserved for the day of calamity,<br />     that they are brought forth to</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">d</span> <span class="fnverse">33</span> <span class="footnotebot">Or 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