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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://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 Geneva Bible</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><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="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">Geneva Bible</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 width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><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"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Geneva Bible of 1587</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/job/21-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">Job: God Will Punish the Wicked<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Bvt Iob answered, and sayd,<p> <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Heare diligently my wordes, and this shalbe in stead of your consolations.<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Suffer mee, that I may speake, and when I haue spoken, mocke on.<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Doe I direct my talke to man? If it were so, how should not my spirit be troubled?<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Marke mee, and be abashed, and lay your hand vpon your mouth.<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Euen when I remember, I am afrayde, and feare taketh hold on my flesh.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Wherefore do the wicked liue, and waxe olde, and grow in wealth?<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Their seede is established in their sight with them, and their generation before their eyes.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Their houses are peaceable without feare, and the rod of God is not vpon them.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Their bullocke gendreth, and fayleth not: their cow calueth, and casteth not her calfe.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>They send forth their children like sheepe, and their sonnes dance.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>They take the tabret & harpe, and reioyce in the sound of the organs.<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>They spend their dayes in wealth, and suddenly they go downe to the graue.<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>They say also vnto God, Depart fro vs: for we desire not the knowledge of thy wayes.<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Who is the Almightie, that we should serue him? and what profit should we haue, if we should pray vnto him?<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Lo, their wealth is not in their hand: therfore let the counsell of the wicked bee farre from me.<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>How oft shal the candle of the wicked be put out? and their destruction come vpon them? he wil deuide their liues in his wrath.<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>They shall be as stubble before the winde, and as chaffe that the storme carieth away.<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>God wil lay vp the sorowe of the father for his children: when he rewardeth him, hee shall knowe it.<p> <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drinke of the wrath of the Almightie.<p> <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>For what pleasure hath he in his house after him, when the nomber of his moneths is cut off?<p> <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Shall any teache God knowledge, who iudgeth the hiest things?<p> <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>One dyeth in his full strength, being in all ease and prosperitie.<p> <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>His breasts are full of milke, and his bones runne full of marowe.<p> <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>And another dieth in the bitternes of his soule, and neuer eateth with pleasure.<p> <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>They shal sleepe both in the dust, & the wormes shal couer them.<p> <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Behold, I know your thoughts, and the enterprises, wherewith ye do me wrong.<p> <A name="29"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>For ye say, Where is the princes house? & where is the tabernacle of the wickeds dwelling?<p> <A name="30"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>May ye not aske the that go by the way? and ye can not deny their signes.<p> <A name="31"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>But the wicked is kept vnto the day of destruction, and they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.<p> <A name="32"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>Who shal declare his way to his face? & who shal reward him for that he hath done?<p> <A name="33"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>Yet shal he be brought to the graue, & remaine in the heape.<p> <A name="34"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>The slimie valley shalbe sweete vnto him, and euery man shal draw after him, as before him there were innumerable.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>How then comfort ye me in vaine, seeing in your answeres there remaine but lyes?<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Geneva Bible of 1587<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</i><span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../job/20.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Job 20"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Job 20" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../job/22.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Job 22"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Job 22" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>