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And what would we gain, that we should pray to him?<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/job/21-16.htm#aramaic"><b>16</b></a></span>Lo, they have no power over their prosperity; the counsel of the ungodly is far from me.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/job/21-17.htm#aramaic"><b>17</b></a></span>How often is it that the wicked are left without an heir! how often their destruction comes upon them! God distributes sorrows in his anger.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/job/21-18.htm#aramaic"><b>18</b></a></span>They are like straw before the wind, and like chaff that the storm carries away.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/job/21-19.htm#aramaic"><b>19</b></a></span>God reserves man's iniquity for his children; he pays it back to him, and he shall know it.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/job/21-20.htm#aramaic"><b>20</b></a></span>His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/job/21-21.htm#aramaic"><b>21</b></a></span>For what pleasure has he in his house after him, when a portion of his years shall be reserved for his posterity?<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/job/21-22.htm#aramaic"><b>22</b></a></span>Shall any teach God knowledge, seeing it is he who judges the proud?<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/job/21-23.htm#aramaic"><b>23</b></a></span>One dies in his full strength, sound of body, being wholly confident, and at ease.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/job/21-24.htm#aramaic"><b>24</b></a></span>His body is full of fat, and his bones are filled with marrow.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/job/21-25.htm#aramaic"><b>25</b></a></span>And another dies in the bitterness of his soul, never having tasted prosperity.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/job/21-26.htm#aramaic"><b>26</b></a></span>They shall lie down in the dust, and the worms shall cover them.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/job/21-27.htm#aramaic"><b>27</b></a></span>Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which you wrongfully imagine against me.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/job/21-28.htm#aramaic"><b>28</b></a></span>For you say. Where is the house of the righteous? And where is the place in which the wicked has pitched his tent?<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/job/21-29.htm#aramaic"><b>29</b></a></span>Have you not asked those who pass by the way? And do you not recognize their tokens?<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/job/21-30.htm#aramaic"><b>30</b></a></span>For the evil man is reserved for the day of destruction, he shall be remembered in the day of wrath.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/job/21-31.htm#aramaic"><b>31</b></a></span>Who can show him the way? And who shall repay him for what he has done?<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/job/21-32.htm#aramaic"><b>32</b></a></span>Yet he shall be brought to the grave, he is reserved for misfortune.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/job/21-33.htm#aramaic"><b>33</b></a></span>The depths of the valley shall swallow him, and many shall be drawn in after him, even as there are innumerable ahead of him.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/job/21-34.htm#aramaic"><b>34</b></a></span>How then can you comfort me in vain, seeing that your abominable answers are multiplied before me?<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Holy Bible From The Ancient Eastern Texts: Aramaic Of The Peshitta by George M. 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