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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Job 21 GNT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/job/21.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/job/21-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">GNT</a> > Job 21</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../job/20.htm" 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">Good News Translation</div><div class="chap"><h5 class="sp">Job</h5><p class="q1"><span class="v18_21_1"><span class="reftext" id="Job.21.1-Job.21.2" class="v18_21_1">1-2</span>Listen to what I am saying;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_21_1">that is all the comfort I ask from you.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_21_3"><span class="reftext" id="Job.21.3" class="v18_21_3">3</span>Give me a chance to speak and then,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_21_3">when I am through, sneer if you like.</span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_21_4"><span class="reftext" id="Job.21.4" class="v18_21_4">4</span>My quarrel is not with mortals;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_21_4">I have good reason to be impatient.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_21_5"><span class="reftext" id="Job.21.5" class="v18_21_5">5</span>Look at me. Isn't that enough</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_21_5">to make you stare in shocked silence?</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_21_6"><span class="reftext" id="Job.21.6" class="v18_21_6">6</span>When I think of what has happened to me,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_21_6">I am stunned, and I tremble and shake.</span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_21_7"><span class="reftext" id="Job.21.7" class="v18_21_7">7</span>Why does God let evil people live,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_21_7">let them grow old and prosper?</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_21_8"><span class="reftext" id="Job.21.8" class="v18_21_8">8</span>They have children and grandchildren,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_21_8">and live to watch them all grow up.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_21_9"><span class="reftext" id="Job.21.9" class="v18_21_9">9</span>God does not bring disaster on their homes;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_21_9">they never have to live in terror.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_21_10"><span class="reftext" id="Job.21.10" class="v18_21_10">10</span>Yes, all their cattle breed</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_21_10">and give birth without trouble.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_21_11"><span class="reftext" id="Job.21.11" class="v18_21_11">11</span>Their children run and play like lambs</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_21_12"><span class="reftext" id="Job.21.12" class="v18_21_12">12</span>and dance to the music of harps and flutes.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_21_13"><span class="reftext" id="Job.21.13" class="v18_21_13">13</span>They live out their lives in peace</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_21_13">and quietly die without suffering.</span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_21_14"><span class="reftext" id="Job.21.14" class="v18_21_14">14</span>The wicked tell God to leave them alone;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_21_14">they don't want to know his will for their lives.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_21_15"><span class="reftext" id="Job.21.15" class="v18_21_15">15</span>They think there is no need to serve God</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_21_15">nor any advantage in praying to him.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_21_16"><span class="reftext" id="Job.21.16" class="v18_21_16">16</span>They claim they succeed by their own strength,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_21_16">but their way of thinking I can't accept.</span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_21_17"><span class="reftext" id="Job.21.17" class="v18_21_17">17</span>Was a wicked person's light ever put out?</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_21_17">Did one of them ever meet with disaster?</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_21_17">Did God ever punish the wicked in anger</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_21_18"><span class="reftext" id="Job.21.18" class="v18_21_18">18</span>and blow them away like straw in the wind,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_21_18">or like dust carried away in a storm?</span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_21_19"><span class="reftext" id="Job.21.19" class="v18_21_19">19</span>You claim God punishes a child for the sins of his father.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_21_19">No! Let God punish the sinners themselves;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_21_19">let him show that he does it because of <span class="it">their</span> sins.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_21_20"><span class="reftext" id="Job.21.20" class="v18_21_20">20</span>Let sinners bear their own punishment;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_21_20">let them feel the wrath of Almighty God.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_21_21"><span class="reftext" id="Job.21.21" class="v18_21_21">21</span>When our lives are over,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_21_21">do we really care whether our children are happy?</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_21_22"><span class="reftext" id="Job.21.22" class="v18_21_22">22</span>Can anyone teach God,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_21_22">who judges even those in high places?</span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_21_23"><span class="reftext" id="Job.21.23-Job.21.24" class="v18_21_23">23-24</span>Some people stay healthy till the day they die;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_21_23">they die happy and at ease,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_21_23">their bodies well-nourished.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_21_25"><span class="reftext" id="Job.21.25" class="v18_21_25">25</span>Others have no happiness at all;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_21_25">they live and die with bitter hearts.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_21_26"><span class="reftext" id="Job.21.26" class="v18_21_26">26</span>But all alike die and are buried;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_21_26">they all are covered with worms.</span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_21_27"><span class="reftext" id="Job.21.27" class="v18_21_27">27</span>I know what spiteful thoughts you have.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_21_28"><span class="reftext" id="Job.21.28" class="v18_21_28">28</span>You ask, “Where are the homes of great people now,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_21_28">those who practiced evil?”</span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_21_29"><span class="reftext" id="Job.21.29" class="v18_21_29">29</span>Haven't you talked with people who travel?</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_21_29">Don't you know the reports they bring back?</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_21_30"><span class="reftext" id="Job.21.30" class="v18_21_30">30</span>On the day God is angry and punishes,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_21_30">it is the wicked who are always spared.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_21_31"><span class="reftext" id="Job.21.31" class="v18_21_31">31</span>There is no one to accuse the wicked</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_21_31">or pay them back for all they have done.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_21_32"><span class="reftext" id="Job.21.32" class="v18_21_32">32</span>When they are carried to the graveyard,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_21_32">to their well-guarded tombs,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_21_33"><span class="reftext" id="Job.21.33" class="v18_21_33">33</span>thousands join the funeral procession,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_21_33">and even the earth lies gently on their bodies.</span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_21_34"><span class="reftext" id="Job.21.34" class="v18_21_34">34</span>And you! You try to comfort me with nonsense!</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_21_34">Every answer you give is a lie!</span></p></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Good News Translation® (Today’s English Version, Second Edition)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 1992 American Bible Society. All rights reserved.</span></p> <p class="yiv9003199930MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;">Bible text from the Good News Translation (GNT) is not to be reproduced in copies or otherwise by any means except as permitted in writing by American Bible Society, 101 North Independence Mall East, Floor 8, Philadelphia, PA 19106-2155 (<a href="http://www.americanbible.org">www.americanbible.org</a>). Learn more at <a href="http://www.gnt.bible">www.gnt.bible</a> . 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