Job - Chapter 21 | American Standard Version

  • 1. Then Job answered and said,
  • 2. Hear diligently my speech; And let this be your consolations.
  • 3. Suffer me, and I also will speak; And after that I have spoken, mock on.
  • 4. As for me, is my complaint to man? And why should I not be impatient?
  • 5. Mark me, and be astonished, And lay your hand upon your mouth.
  • 6. Even when I remember I am troubled, And horror taketh hold on my flesh.
  • 7. Wherefore do the wicked live, Become old, yea, wax mighty in power?
  • 8. Their seed is established with them in their sight, And their offspring before their eyes.
  • 9. Their houses are safe from fear, Neither is the rod of God upon them.
  • 10. Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; Their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf.
  • 11. They send forth their little ones like a flock, And their children dance.
  • 12. They sing to the timbrel and harp, And rejoice at the sound of the pipe.
  • 13. They spend their days in prosperity, And in a moment they go down to Sheol.
  • 14. And they say unto God, Depart from us; For we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.
  • 15. What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? And what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?
  • 16. Lo, their prosperity is not in their hand: The counsel of the wicked is far from me.
  • 17. How oft is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out? That their calamity cometh upon them? That {cf15i God} distributeth sorrows in his anger?
  • 18. That they are as stubble before the wind, And as chaff that the storm carrieth away?
  • 19. {cf15i Ye say}, God layeth up his iniquity for his children. Let him recompense it unto himself, that he may know it:
  • 20. Let his own eyes see his destruction, And let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
  • 21. For what careth he for his house after him, When the number of his months is cut off?
  • 22. Shall any teach God knowledge, Seeing he judgeth those that are high?
  • 23. One dieth in his full strength, Being wholly at ease and quiet:
  • 24. His pails are full of milk, And the marrow of his bones is moistened.
  • 25. And another dieth in bitterness of soul, And never tasteth of good.
  • 26. They lie down alike in the dust, And the worm covereth them.
  • 27. Behold, I know your thoughts, And the devices wherewith ye would wrong me.
  • 28. For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? And where is the tent wherein the wicked dwelt?
  • 29. Have ye not asked wayfaring men? And do ye not know their evidences,
  • 30. That the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity? That they are led forth to the day of wrath?
  • 31. Who shall declare his way to his face? And who shall repay him what he hath done?
  • 32. Yet shall he be borne to the grave, And men shall keep watch over the tomb.
  • 33. The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, And all men shall draw after him, As there were innumerable before him.
  • 34. How then comfort ye me in vain, Seeing in your answers there remaineth {cf15i only} falsehood?
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