Job Chapter 21
21:1 | But Job answered and said, |
21:2 | Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations. |
21:3 | Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on. |
21:4 | As for me, [is] my complaint to man? and if [it were so], why should not my ![]() |
21:5 | Mark me, and be astonished, and lay [your] hand upon [your] mouth. |
21:6 | Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh. |
21:7 | Wherefore ![]() ![]() ![]() |
21:8 | Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes. |
21:9 | Their ![]() |
21:10 | Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their ![]() ![]() |
21:11 | They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance. |
21:12 | They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ. |
21:13 | They spend their ![]() |
21:14 | Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways. |
21:15 | What [is] the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him? |
21:16 | Lo, their good [is] not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me. |
21:17 | How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and [how oft] cometh their destruction upon them! [God] distributeth sorrows in his anger. |
21:18 | They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away. |
21:19 | God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know [it]. |
21:20 | His eyes shall ![]() ![]() |
21:21 | For what ![]() ![]() |
21:22 | Shall [any] teach God knowledge? seeing he judgeth those that are high. |
21:23 | One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet. |
21:24 | His breasts are full of ![]() |
21:25 | And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never eateth with ![]() |
21:26 | They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them. |
21:27 | Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices [which] ye wrongfully imagine against me. |
21:28 | For ye say, Where [is] the ![]() |
21:29 | Have ye not asked them that go by the way? and ![]() |
21:30 | That the wicked is reserved to the ![]() ![]() |
21:31 | Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him [what] he hath done? |
21:32 | Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb. |
21:33 | The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, and every man shall draw after him, as [there are] innumerable before him. |
21:34 | How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your ![]() |