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class="version" width="20%"><a href="/nasb/job/21.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NASB</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/kjv/job/21.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>KJV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/hcsb/job/21.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>HCSB</td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-1.htm">1</a>Then Job replied:</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-1.htm">1</a>Then Job answered and said:</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-1.htm">1</a>Then Job answered,</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-1.htm">1</a>But Job answered and said,</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-1.htm">1</a>Then Job answered: </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-2.htm">2</a>"Listen carefully to my words; let this be the consolation you give me.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-2.htm">2</a>“Keep listening to my words, and let this be your comfort.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-2.htm">2</a>"Listen carefully to my speech, And let this be your way of consolation.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-2.htm">2</a>Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-2.htm">2</a>Pay close attention to my words; let this be the consolation you offer. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-3.htm">3</a>Bear with me while I speak, and after I have spoken, mock on.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-3.htm">3</a>Bear with me, and I will speak, and after I have spoken, mock on.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-3.htm">3</a>"Bear with me that I may speak; Then after I have spoken, you may mock.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-3.htm">3</a>Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-3.htm">3</a>Bear with me while I speak; then after I have spoken, you may continue mocking. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-4.htm">4</a>"Is my complaint directed to a human being? Why should I not be impatient?</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-4.htm">4</a>As for me, is my complaint against man? Why should I not be impatient?</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-4.htm">4</a>"As for me, is my complaint to man? And why should I not be impatient?</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-4.htm">4</a>As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled?</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-4.htm">4</a>As for me, is my complaint against a man? Then why shouldn't I be impatient? </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/niv/job/21.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NIV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/esv/job/21.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>ESV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/nasb/job/21.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NASB</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/kjv/job/21.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>KJV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/hcsb/job/21.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>HCSB</td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-5.htm">5</a>Look at me and be appalled; clap your hand over your mouth.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-5.htm">5</a>Look at me and be appalled, and lay your hand over your mouth.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-5.htm">5</a>"Look at me, and be astonished, And put your hand over your mouth.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-5.htm">5</a>Mark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-5.htm">5</a>Look at me and shudder; put your hand over your mouth. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-6.htm">6</a>When I think about this, I am terrified; trembling seizes my body.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-6.htm">6</a>When I remember, I am dismayed, and shuddering seizes my flesh.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-6.htm">6</a>"Even when I remember, I am disturbed, And horror takes hold of my flesh.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-6.htm">6</a>Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-6.htm">6</a>When I think about it, I am terrified and my body trembles in horror. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-7.htm">7</a>Why do the wicked live on, growing old and increasing in power?</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-7.htm">7</a>Why do the wicked live, reach old age, and grow mighty in power?</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-7.htm">7</a>"Why do the wicked still live, Continue on, also become very powerful?</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-7.htm">7</a>Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-7.htm">7</a>Why do the wicked continue to live, growing old and becoming powerful? </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-8.htm">8</a>They see their children established around them, their offspring before their eyes.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-8.htm">8</a>Their offspring are established in their presence, and their descendants before their eyes.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-8.htm">8</a>"Their descendants are established with them in their sight, And their offspring before their eyes,</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-8.htm">8</a>Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-8.htm">8</a>Their children are established while they are still alive, and their descendants, before their eyes. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-9.htm">9</a>Their homes are safe and free from fear; the rod of God is not on them.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-9.htm">9</a>Their houses are safe from fear, and no rod of God is upon them.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-9.htm">9</a>Their houses are safe from fear, And the rod of God is not on them.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-9.htm">9</a>Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-9.htm">9</a>Their homes are secure and free of fear; no rod from God strikes them. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/niv/job/21.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NIV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/esv/job/21.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>ESV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/nasb/job/21.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NASB</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/kjv/job/21.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>KJV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/hcsb/job/21.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>HCSB</td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-10.htm">10</a>Their bulls never fail to breed; their cows calve and do not miscarry.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-10.htm">10</a>Their bull breeds without fail; their cow calves and does not miscarry.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-10.htm">10</a>"His ox mates without fail; His cow calves and does not abort.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-10.htm">10</a>Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-10.htm">10</a>Their bulls breed without fail; their cows calve and do not miscarry. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-11.htm">11</a>They send forth their children as a flock; their little ones dance about.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-11.htm">11</a>They send out their little boys like a flock, and their children dance.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-11.htm">11</a>"They send forth their little ones like the flock, And their children skip about.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-11.htm">11</a>They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-11.htm">11</a>They let their little ones run around like lambs; their children skip about, </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-12.htm">12</a>They sing to the music of timbrel and lyre; they make merry to the sound of the pipe.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-12.htm">12</a>They sing to the tambourine and the lyre and rejoice to the sound of the pipe.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-12.htm">12</a>"They sing to the timbrel and harp And rejoice at the sound of the flute.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-12.htm">12</a>They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-12.htm">12</a>singing to the tambourine and lyre and rejoicing at the sound of the flute. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-13.htm">13</a>They spend their years in prosperity and go down to the grave in peace.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-13.htm">13</a>They spend their days in prosperity, and in peace they go down to Sheol.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-13.htm">13</a>"They spend their days in prosperity, And suddenly they go down to Sheol.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-13.htm">13</a>They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-13.htm">13</a>They spend their days in prosperity and go down to Sheol in peace. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-14.htm">14</a>Yet they say to God, 'Leave us alone! We have no desire to know your ways.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-14.htm">14</a>They say to God, ‘Depart from us! We do not desire the knowledge of your ways.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-14.htm">14</a>"They say to God, 'Depart from us! We do not even desire the knowledge of Your ways.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-14.htm">14</a>Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-14.htm">14</a>Yet they say to God: "Leave us alone! We don't want to know Your ways. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/niv/job/21.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NIV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/esv/job/21.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>ESV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/nasb/job/21.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NASB</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/kjv/job/21.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>KJV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/hcsb/job/21.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>HCSB</td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-15.htm">15</a>Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What would we gain by praying to him?'</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-15.htm">15</a>What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? And what profit do we get if we pray to him?’</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-15.htm">15</a>'Who is the Almighty, that we should serve Him, And what would we gain if we entreat Him?'</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-15.htm">15</a>What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-15.htm">15</a>Who is the Almighty, that we should serve Him, and what will we gain by pleading with Him?" </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-16.htm">16</a>But their prosperity is not in their own hands, so I stand aloof from the plans of the wicked.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-16.htm">16</a>Behold, is not their prosperity in their hand? The counsel of the wicked is far from me.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-16.htm">16</a>"Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand; The counsel of the wicked is far from me.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-16.htm">16</a>Lo, their good is not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-16.htm">16</a>But their prosperity is not of their own doing. The counsel of the wicked is far from me! </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-17.htm">17</a>"Yet how often is the lamp of the wicked snuffed out? How often does calamity come upon them, the fate God allots in his anger?</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-17.htm">17</a>“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?</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-17.htm">17</a>"How often is the lamp of the wicked put out, Or does their calamity fall on them? Does God apportion destruction in His anger?</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-17.htm">17</a>How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and how oft cometh their destruction upon them! God distributeth sorrows in his anger.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-17.htm">17</a>How often is the lamp of the wicked put out? Does disaster come on them? Does He apportion destruction in His anger? </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-18.htm">18</a>How often are they like straw before the wind, like chaff swept away by a gale?</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-18.htm">18</a>That they are like straw before the wind, and like chaff that the storm carries away?</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-18.htm">18</a>"Are they as straw before the wind, And like chaff which the storm carries away?</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-18.htm">18</a>They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-18.htm">18</a>Are they like straw before the wind, like chaff a storm sweeps away? </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-19.htm">19</a>It is said, 'God stores up the punishment of the wicked for their children.' Let him repay the wicked, so that they themselves will experience it!</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-19.htm">19</a>You say, ‘God stores up their iniquity for their children.’ Let him pay it out to them, that they may know it.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-19.htm">19</a>"You say, 'God stores away a man's iniquity for his sons.' Let God repay him so that he may know it.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-19.htm">19</a>God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know it.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-19.htm">19</a>God reserves a person's punishment for his children. Let God repay the person himself, so that he may know it. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/niv/job/21.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NIV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/esv/job/21.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>ESV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/nasb/job/21.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NASB</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/kjv/job/21.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>KJV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/hcsb/job/21.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>HCSB</td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-20.htm">20</a>Let their own eyes see their destruction; let them drink the cup of the wrath of the Almighty.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-20.htm">20</a>Let their own eyes see their destruction, and let them drink of the wrath of the Almighty.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-20.htm">20</a>"Let his own eyes see his decay, And let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-20.htm">20</a>His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-20.htm">20</a>Let his own eyes see his demise; let him drink from the Almighty's wrath! </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-21.htm">21</a>For what do they care about the families they leave behind when their allotted months come to an end?</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-21.htm">21</a>For what do they care for their houses after them, when the number of their months is cut off?</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-21.htm">21</a>"For what does he care for his household after him, When the number of his months is cut off?</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-21.htm">21</a>For what pleasure hath he in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off in the midst?</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-21.htm">21</a>For what does he care about his family once he is dead, when the number of his months has run out? </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-22.htm">22</a>"Can anyone teach knowledge to God, since he judges even the highest?</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-22.htm">22</a>Will any teach God knowledge, seeing that he judges those who are on high?</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-22.htm">22</a>"Can anyone teach God knowledge, In that He judges those on high?</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-22.htm">22</a>Shall any teach God knowledge? seeing he judgeth those that are high.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-22.htm">22</a>Can anyone teach God knowledge, since He judges the exalted ones? </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-23.htm">23</a>One person dies in full vigor, completely secure and at ease,</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-23.htm">23</a>One dies in his full vigor, being wholly at ease and secure,</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-23.htm">23</a>"One dies in his full strength, Being wholly at ease and satisfied;</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-23.htm">23</a>One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-23.htm">23</a>One person dies in excellent health, completely secure and at ease. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-24.htm">24</a>well nourished in body, bones rich with marrow.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-24.htm">24</a>his pails full of milk and the marrow of his bones moist.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-24.htm">24</a>His sides are filled out with fat, And the marrow of his bones is moist,</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-24.htm">24</a>His breasts are full of milk, and his bones are moistened with marrow.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-24.htm">24</a>His body is well fed, and his bones are full of marrow. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/niv/job/21.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NIV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/esv/job/21.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>ESV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/nasb/job/21.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NASB</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/kjv/job/21.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>KJV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/hcsb/job/21.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>HCSB</td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-25.htm">25</a>Another dies in bitterness of soul, never having enjoyed anything good.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-25.htm">25</a>Another dies in bitterness of soul, never having tasted of prosperity.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-25.htm">25</a>While another dies with a bitter soul, Never even tasting anything good.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-25.htm">25</a>And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never eateth with pleasure.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-25.htm">25</a>Yet another person dies with a bitter soul, having never tasted prosperity. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-26.htm">26</a>Side by side they lie in the dust, and worms cover them both.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-26.htm">26</a>They lie down alike in the dust, and the worms cover them.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-26.htm">26</a>"Together they lie down in the dust, And worms cover them.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-26.htm">26</a>They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-26.htm">26</a>But they both lie in the dust, and worms cover them. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-27.htm">27</a>"I know full well what you are thinking, the schemes by which you would wrong me.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-27.htm">27</a>“Behold, I know your thoughts and your schemes to wrong me.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-27.htm">27</a>"Behold, I know your thoughts, And the plans by which you would wrong me.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-27.htm">27</a>Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-27.htm">27</a>I know your thoughts very well, the schemes you would wrong me with. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-28.htm">28</a>You say, 'Where now is the house of the great, the tents where the wicked lived?'</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-28.htm">28</a>For you say, ‘Where is the house of the prince? Where is the tent in which the wicked lived?’</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-28.htm">28</a>"For you say, 'Where is the house of the nobleman, And where is the tent, the dwelling places of the wicked?'</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-28.htm">28</a>For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked?</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-28.htm">28</a>For you say, "Where now is the nobleman's house?" and "Where are the tents the wicked lived in?" </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-29.htm">29</a>Have you never questioned those who travel? Have you paid no regard to their accounts--</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-29.htm">29</a>Have you not asked those who travel the roads, and do you not accept their testimony</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-29.htm">29</a>"Have you not asked wayfaring men, And do you not recognize their witness?</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-29.htm">29</a>Have ye not asked them that go by the way? and do ye not know their tokens,</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-29.htm">29</a>Have you never consulted those who travel the roads? Don't you accept their reports? </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/niv/job/21.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NIV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/esv/job/21.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>ESV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/nasb/job/21.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NASB</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/kjv/job/21.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>KJV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/hcsb/job/21.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>HCSB</td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-30.htm">30</a>that the wicked are spared from the day of calamity, that they are delivered from the day of wrath?</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-30.htm">30</a>that the evil man is spared in the day of calamity, that he is rescued in the day of wrath?</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-30.htm">30</a>"For the wicked is reserved for the day of calamity; They will be led forth at the day of fury.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-30.htm">30</a>That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-30.htm">30</a>Indeed, the evil man is spared from the day of disaster, rescued from the day of wrath. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-31.htm">31</a>Who denounces their conduct to their face? Who repays them for what they have done?</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-31.htm">31</a>Who declares his way to his face, and who repays him for what he has done?</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-31.htm">31</a>"Who will confront him with his actions, And who will repay him for what he has done?</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-31.htm">31</a>Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him what he hath done?</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-31.htm">31</a>Who would denounce his behavior to his face? Who would repay him for what he has done? </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-32.htm">32</a>They are carried to the grave, and watch is kept over their tombs.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-32.htm">32</a>When he is carried to the grave, watch is kept over his tomb.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-32.htm">32</a>"While he is carried to the grave, Men will keep watch over his tomb.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-32.htm">32</a>Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-32.htm">32</a>He is carried to the grave, and someone keeps watch over his tomb. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-33.htm">33</a>The soil in the valley is sweet to them; everyone follows after them, and a countless throng goes before them.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-33.htm">33</a>The clods of the valley are sweet to him; all mankind follows after him, and those who go before him are innumerable.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-33.htm">33</a>"The clods of the valley will gently cover him; Moreover, all men will follow after him, While countless ones go before him.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-33.htm">33</a>The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, and every man shall draw after him, as there are innumerable before him.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-33.htm">33</a>The dirt on his grave is sweet to him. Everyone follows behind him, and those who go before him are without number. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-34.htm">34</a>"So how can you console me with your nonsense? Nothing is left of your answers but falsehood!"</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-34.htm">34</a>How then will you comfort me with empty nothings? There is nothing left of your answers but falsehood.”</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-34.htm">34</a>"How then will you vainly comfort me, For your answers remain full of falsehood?"</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-34.htm">34</a>How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood?</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/21-34.htm">34</a>So how can you offer me such futile comfort? 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