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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">JPS Tanakh 1917</div><div class="chap"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Then Job answered and said: <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Hear diligently my speech;</div><div class="po2">And let this be your consolations.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Suffer me, that I may speak;</div><div class="po2">And after that I have spoken, mock on.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>As for me, is my complaint to man?</div><div class="po2">Or why should I not be impatient?</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Turn unto me, and be astonished,</div><div class="po2">And lay your hand upon your mouth.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Even when I remember I am affrighted,</div><div class="po2">And horror hath taketh hold on my flesh.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Wherefore do the wicked live,</div><div class="po2">Become old, yea, wax mighty in power?</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Their seed is established in their sight with them,</div><div class="po2">And their offspring before their eyes.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Their houses are safe, without fear,</div><div class="po2">Neither is the rod of God upon them.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Their bull gendereth, and faileth not;</div><div class="po2">Their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>They send forth their little ones like a flock,</div><div class="po2">And their children dance.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>They sing to the timbrel and harp,</div><div class="po2">And rejoice at the sound of the pipe.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>They spend their days in prosperity,</div><div class="po2">And peacefully they go down to the grave.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Yet they said unto God: ‘Depart from us;</div><div class="po2">For we desire not the knowledge of Thy ways.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>What is the Almighty, that we should serve Him?</div><div class="po2">And what profit should we have, if we pray unto Him?’—</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Lo, their prosperity is not in their hand;</div><div class="po2">The counsel of the wicked is far from me.</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>How oft is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out?</div><div class="po2">That their calamity cometh upon them?</div><div class="po2">That He distributeth pains in His anger?</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>That they are as stubble before the wind,</div><div class="po2">And as chaff that the storm stealeth away?</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>‘God layeth up his iniquity for his children!’—</div><div class="po2">Let Him recompense it unto himself, that he may know it.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Let his own eyes see his destruction,</div><div class="po2">And let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>For what pleasure hath he in his house after him?</div><div class="po2">Seeing the number of his months is determined.</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Shall any teach God knowledge?</div><div class="po2">Seeing it is He that judgeth those that are high.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>One dieth in his full strength,</div><div class="po2">Being wholly at ease and quiet;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>His pails are full of milk,</div><div class="po2">And the marrow of his bones is moistened.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>And another dieth in bitterness of soul,</div><div class="po2">And hath never tasted of good.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>They lie down alike in the dust,</div><div class="po2">And the worm covereth them.</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Behold, I know your thoughts,</div><div class="po2">And the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>For ye say: ‘Where is the house of the prince?</div><div class="po2">And where is the tent wherein the wicked dwelt?’</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>Have ye not asked them that go by the way;</div><div class="po2">And will ye misdeem their tokens,</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>That the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity,</div><div class="po2">That they are led forth to the day of wrath?</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>But who shall declare his way to his face?</div><div class="po2">And who shall repay him what he hath done?</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>For he is borne to the grave,</div><div class="po2">And watch is kept over his tomb.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>The clods of the valley are sweet unto him,</div><div class="po2">And all men draw after him,</div><div class="po2">As there were innumerable before him.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>How then comfort ye me in vain?</div><div class="po2">And as for your answers, there remaineth only 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