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Let this be your consolation.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Allow me, and I also will speak; After I have spoken, mock on.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>As for me, is my complaint to man? Why shouldn't I be impatient?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Look at me, and be astonished. Lay your hand on your mouth.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>When I remember, I am troubled. Horror takes hold of my flesh.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>"Why do the wicked live, become old, yes, and grow mighty in power?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Their child is established with them in their sight, their offspring before their eyes.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Their bulls breed without fail. Their cows calve, and don't miscarry.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>They send forth their little ones like a flock. Their children dance.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>They sing to the tambourine and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the pipe.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>They spend their days in prosperity. In an instant they go down to Sheol.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>They tell God, 'Depart from us, for we don't want to know about your ways.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What profit should we have, if we pray to him?'</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand. The counsel of the wicked is far from me.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>"How often is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out, that their calamity comes on them, that God distributes sorrows in his anger?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>How often is it that they are as stubble before the wind, as chaff that the storm carries away?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>You say, 'God lays up his iniquity for his children.' Let him recompense it to himself, that he may know it.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Let his own eyes see his destruction. Let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>For what does he care for his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>"Shall any teach God knowledge, since he judges those who are high?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>One dies in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>His pails are full of milk. The marrow of his bones is moistened.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Another dies in bitterness of soul, and never tastes of good.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>They lie down alike in the dust. The worm covers them.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>"Behold, I know your thoughts, the devices with which you would wrong me.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>For you say, 'Where is the house of the prince? Where is the tent in which the wicked lived?'</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>Haven't you asked wayfaring men? Don't you know their evidences,</p> <p class="reg"><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, That they are led forth to the day of wrath?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>Who shall declare his way to his face? Who shall repay him what he has done?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>Yet he will be borne to the grave. Men shall keep watch over the tomb.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>The clods of the valley shall be sweet to him. All men shall draw after him, as there were innumerable before him.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/21-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>So how can you comfort me with nonsense, because in your answers there remains only falsehood?"</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The World English Bible is a 1997 revision of the American Standard Version of the Holy Bible, first published in 1901. It is in the Public Domain. Please feel free to copy and distribute it freely. Thank you to Michael Paul Johnson for making this work available. 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