Job-21

(New International Version)

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  • 1 Job Then Job replied:
  • 2 “Listen carefully to my words; let this be the consolation you give me.
  • 3 Bear with me while I speak, and after I have spoken, mock on.
  • 4 “Is my complaint directed to a human being? Why should I not be impatient?
  • 5 Look at me and be appalled; clap your hand over your mouth.
  • 6 When I think about this, I am terrified; trembling seizes my body.
  • 7 Why do the wicked live on, growing old and increasing in power?
  • 8 They see their children established around them, their offspring before their eyes.
  • 9 Their homes are safe and free from fear; the rod of God is not on them.
  • 10 Their bulls never fail to breed; their cows calve and do not miscarry.
  • 11 They send forth their children as a flock; their little ones dance about.
  • 12 They sing to the music of timbrel and lyre; they make merry to the sound of the pipe.
  • 13 They spend their years in prosperity and go down to the grave in peace. 21:13 Or in an instant
  • 14 Yet they say to God, ‘Leave us alone! We have no desire to know your ways.
  • 15 Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What would we gain by praying to him?’
  • 16 But their prosperity is not in their own hands, so I stand aloof from the plans of the wicked.
  • 17 “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?
  • 18 How often are they like straw before the wind, like chaff swept away by a gale?
  • 19 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!
  • 20 Let their own eyes see their destruction; let them drink the cup of the wrath of the Almighty.
  • 21 For what do they care about the families they leave behind when their allotted months come to an end?
  • 22 “Can anyone teach knowledge to God, since he judges even the highest?
  • 23 One person dies in full vigor, completely secure and at ease,
  • 24 well nourished in body, 21:24 The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain. bones rich with marrow.
  • 25 Another dies in bitterness of soul, never having enjoyed anything good.
  • 26 Side by side they lie in the dust, and worms cover them both.
  • 27 “I know full well what you are thinking, the schemes by which you would wrong me.
  • 28 You say, ‘Where now is the house of the great, the tents where the wicked lived?’
  • 29 Have you never questioned those who travel? Have you paid no regard to their accounts—
  • 30 that the wicked are spared from the day of calamity, that they are delivered from 21:30 Or wicked are reserved for the day of calamity, / that they are brought forth to the day of wrath?
  • 31 Who denounces their conduct to their face? Who repays them for what they have done?
  • 32 They are carried to the grave, and watch is kept over their tombs.
  • 33 The soil in the valley is sweet to them; everyone follows after them, and a countless throng goes 21:33 Or them, / as a countless throng went before them.
  • 34 “So how can you console me with your nonsense? Nothing is left of your answers but falsehood!”
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