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valign="top">New King James Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nkjv/kjv/job/21.shtml" style=color:#001320 title=Parallel Chapters> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"> <h3>Job’s Discourse on the Wicked</span></h3><p class="chapter-2"><span class="text Job-21-1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/21-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Then Job answered and said:</span></p> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/21-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>“Listen carefully to my speech,</span><br /><span class="text Job-21-2">And let this be your <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[a]</a></span>consolation.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/21-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Bear with me that I may speak,</span><br /><span class="text Job-21-3">And after I have spoken, keep mocking.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/21-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>“As for me, <i>is</i> my complaint against man?</span><br /><span class="text Job-21-4">And if <i>it were,</i> why should I not be impatient?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/21-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Look at me and be astonished;</span><br /><span class="text Job-21-5">Put <i>your</i> hand over <i>your</i> mouth.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/21-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Even when I remember I am terrified,</span><br /><span class="text Job-21-6">And trembling takes hold of my flesh.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/21-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Why do the wicked live <i>and</i> become old,</span><br /><span class="text Job-21-7">Yes, become mighty in power?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/21-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Their descendants are established with them in their sight,</span><br /><span class="text Job-21-8">And their offspring before their eyes.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/21-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Their houses <i>are</i> safe from fear,</span><br /><span class="text Job-21-9">Neither <i>is</i> <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[b]</a></span>the rod of God upon them.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/21-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Their bull breeds without failure;</span><br /><span class="text Job-21-10">Their cow calves without miscarriage.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/21-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>They send forth their little ones like a flock,</span><br /><span class="text Job-21-11">And their children dance.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/21-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>They sing to the tambourine and harp,</span><br /><span class="text Job-21-12">And rejoice to the sound of the flute.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/21-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>They spend their days in wealth,</span><br /><span class="text Job-21-13">And <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[c]</a></span>in a moment go down to the <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[d]</a></span>grave.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/21-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Yet they say to God, ‘Depart from us,</span><br /><span class="text Job-21-14">For we do not desire the knowledge of Your ways.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/21-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Who <i>is</i> the Almighty, that we should serve Him?</span><br /><span class="text Job-21-15">And what profit do we have if we pray to Him?’</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/21-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Indeed <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[e]</a></span>their prosperity <i>is</i> not in their hand;</span><br /><span class="text Job-21-16">The counsel of the wicked is far from me.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/21-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>“How often is the lamp of the wicked put out?</span><br /><span class="text Job-21-17"><i>How often</i> does their destruction come upon them,</span><br /><span class="text Job-21-17">The sorrows <i>God</i> distributes in His anger?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/21-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>They are like straw before the wind,</span><br /><span class="text Job-21-18">And like chaff that a storm <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[f]</a></span>carries away.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/21-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><i>They say,</i> ‘God <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[g]</a></span>lays up <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[h]</a></span>one’s iniquity for his children’;</span><br /><span class="text Job-21-19">Let Him recompense him, that he may know <i>it.</i></span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/21-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Let his eyes see his destruction,</span><br /><span class="text Job-21-20">And let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/21-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>For what does he care about his household after him,</span><br /><span class="text Job-21-21">When the number of his months is cut in half?</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/21-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>“Can <i>anyone</i> teach God knowledge,</span><br /><span class="text Job-21-22">Since He judges those on high?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/21-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>One dies in his full strength,</span><br /><span class="text Job-21-23">Being wholly at ease and secure;</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/21-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>His <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[i]</a></span>pails are full of milk,</span><br /><span class="text Job-21-24">And the marrow of his bones is moist.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/21-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Another man dies in the bitterness of his soul,</span><br /><span class="text Job-21-25">Never having eaten with pleasure.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/21-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>They lie down alike in the dust,</span><br /><span class="text Job-21-26">And worms cover them.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/21-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>“Look, I know your thoughts,</span><br /><span class="text Job-21-27">And the schemes <i>with which</i> you would wrong me.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/21-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>For you say,</span><br /><span class="text Job-21-28">‘Where <i>is</i> the house of the prince?</span><br /><span class="text Job-21-28">And where <i>is</i> <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[j]</a></span>the tent,</span><br /><span class="text Job-21-28">The dwelling place of the wicked?’</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/21-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>Have you not asked those who travel the road?</span><br /><span class="text Job-21-29">And do you not know their signs?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/21-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>For the wicked are reserved for the day of doom;</span><br /><span class="text Job-21-30">They shall be brought out on the day of wrath.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/21-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>Who condemns his way to his face?</span><br /><span class="text Job-21-31">And who repays him <i>for what</i> he has done?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/21-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>Yet he shall be brought to the grave,</span><br /><span class="text Job-21-32">And a vigil kept over the tomb.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/21-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>The clods of the valley shall be sweet to him;</span><br /><span class="text Job-21-33">Everyone shall follow him,</span><br /><span class="text Job-21-33">As countless <i>have gone</i> before him.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/21-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>How then can you comfort me with empty words,</span><br /><span class="text Job-21-34">Since <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[k]</a></span>falsehood remains in your answers?”</span></p></div> <A name="footnotes"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes:</h4><ol><li id="fen-NKJV-13358a"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Job 21:2">Job 21:2</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>comfort</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-13365b"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Job 21:9">Job 21:9</span> <span class='footnote-text'>The rod of God’s chastisement</span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-13369c"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Job 21:13">Job 21:13</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Without lingering</span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-13369d"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Job 21:13">Job 21:13</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>Sheol</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-13372e"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Job 21:16">Job 21:16</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Lit. <i>their goal</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-13374f"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Job 21:18">Job 21:18</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>steals away</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-13375g"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Job 21:19">Job 21:19</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>stores up</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-13375h"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Job 21:19">Job 21:19</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Lit. <i>his</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-13380i"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Job 21:24">Job 21:24</span> <span class='footnote-text'>LXX, Vg. <i>bowels;</i> Syr. <i>sides;</i> Tg. <i>breasts</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-13384j"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Job 21:28">Job 21:28</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Vg. omits <i>the tent</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-13390k"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Job 21:34">Job 21:34</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>faithlessness</i></span></li></ol></div> </span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible, New King James Version, Copyright © 1982 Thomas Nelson. 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