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Job 21 NASB 1995
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class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">NASB 1995</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nas/esv/job/21.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><font color="#000000"><b><i>Job Says God Will Deal with the Wicked</i></b></font><font size="1"><br><br></font> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/21-1.htm" target="_top"><b>1</b></a></span>Then Job answered,<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/21-2.htm" target="_top"><b>2</b></a></span>“Listen carefully to my speech,<br> And let this be your <i>way of</i> consolation.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/21-3.htm" target="_top"><b>3</b></a></span>“Bear with me that I may speak;<br> Then after I have spoken, you may mock.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/21-4.htm" target="_top"><b>4</b></a></span>“As for me, is my complaint to man?<br> And why should I not be impatient?<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/21-5.htm" target="_top"><b>5</b></a></span>“Look at me, and be astonished,<br> And put <i>your</i> hand over <i>your</i> mouth.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/21-6.htm" target="_top"><b>6</b></a></span>“Even when I remember, I am disturbed,<br> And horror takes hold of my flesh.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/21-7.htm" target="_top"><b>7</b></a></span>“Why do the wicked <i>still</i> live,<br> Continue on, also become very powerful?<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/21-8.htm" target="_top"><b>8</b></a></span>“Their descendants are established with them in their sight,<br> And their offspring before their eyes,<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/21-9.htm" target="_top"><b>9</b></a></span>Their houses are safe from fear,<br> And the rod of God is not on them.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/21-10.htm" target="_top"><b>10</b></a></span>“His ox mates without fail;<br> His cow calves and does not abort.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/21-11.htm" target="_top"><b>11</b></a></span>“They send forth their little ones like the flock,<br> And their children skip about.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/21-12.htm" target="_top"><b>12</b></a></span>“They sing to the timbrel and harp<br> And rejoice at the sound of the flute.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/21-13.htm" target="_top"><b>13</b></a></span>“They spend their days in prosperity,<br> And suddenly they go down to Sheol.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/21-14.htm" target="_top"><b>14</b></a></span>“They say to God, ‘Depart from us!<br> We do not even desire the knowledge of Your ways.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/21-15.htm" target="_top"><b>15</b></a></span>‘Who is the Almighty, that we should serve Him,<br> And what would we gain if we entreat Him?’<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/21-16.htm" target="_top"><b>16</b></a></span>“Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand;<br> The counsel of the wicked is far from me.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/21-17.htm" target="_top"><b>17</b></a></span>“How often is the lamp of the wicked put out,<br> Or does their calamity fall on them?<br> Does God apportion destruction in His anger?<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/21-18.htm" target="_top"><b>18</b></a></span>“Are they as straw before the wind,<br> And like chaff which the storm carries away?<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/21-19.htm" target="_top"><b>19</b></a></span>“<i>You say,</i> ‘God stores away a man’s iniquity for his sons.’<br> Let God repay him so that he may know <i>it.</i><p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/21-20.htm" target="_top"><b>20</b></a></span>“Let his own eyes see his decay,<br> And let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/21-21.htm" target="_top"><b>21</b></a></span>“For what does he care for his household after him,<br> When the number of his months is cut off?<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/21-22.htm" target="_top"><b>22</b></a></span>“Can anyone teach God knowledge,<br> In that He judges those on high?<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/21-23.htm" target="_top"><b>23</b></a></span>“One dies in his full strength,<br> Being wholly at ease and satisfied;<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/21-24.htm" target="_top"><b>24</b></a></span>His sides are filled out with fat,<br> And the marrow of his bones is moist,<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/21-25.htm" target="_top"><b>25</b></a></span>While another dies with a bitter soul,<br> Never even tasting <i>anything</i> good.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/21-26.htm" target="_top"><b>26</b></a></span>“Together they lie down in the dust,<br> And worms cover them.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/21-27.htm" target="_top"><b>27</b></a></span>“Behold, I know your thoughts,<br> And the plans by which you would wrong me.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/21-28.htm" target="_top"><b>28</b></a></span>“For you say, ‘Where is the house of the nobleman,<br> And where is the tent, the dwelling places of the wicked?’<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/21-29.htm" target="_top"><b>29</b></a></span>“Have you not asked wayfaring men,<br> And do you not recognize their witness?<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/21-30.htm" target="_top"><b>30</b></a></span>“For the wicked is reserved for the day of calamity;<br> They will be led forth at the day of fury.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/21-31.htm" target="_top"><b>31</b></a></span>“Who will confront him with his actions,<br> And who will repay him for what he has done?<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/21-32.htm" target="_top"><b>32</b></a></span>“While he is carried to the grave,<br> <i>Men</i> will keep watch over <i>his</i> tomb.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/21-33.htm" target="_top"><b>33</b></a></span>“The clods of the valley will gently cover him;<br> Moreover, all men will follow after him,<br> While countless ones <i>go</i> before him.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/21-34.htm" target="_top"><b>34</b></a></span>“How then will you vainly comfort me,<br> For your answers remain <i>full of</i> falsehood?”<p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">NASB 1995 Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation, La 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