Job 21

Verses of Job 21 of the NIV from the book of the bible

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1 - 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 man? Why should I not be impatient?
5 - Look at me and be astonished; 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 upon 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 tambourine and harp; they make merry to the sound of the flute.
13 - They spend their years in prosperity and go down to the grave in peace.
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 counsel 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 a man's punishment for his sons.' Let him repay the man himself, so that he will know it!
20 - Let his own eyes see his destruction; let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
21 - For what does he care about the family he leaves behind when his allotted months come to an end?
22 - "Can anyone teach knowledge to God, since he judges even the highest?
23 - One man dies in full vigor, completely secure and at ease,
24 - his body well nourished, his bones rich with marrow.
25 - Another man 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 great man's house, the tents where wicked men lived?'
29 - Have you never questioned those who travel? Have you paid no regard to their accounts-
30 - that the evil man is spared from the day of calamity, that he is delivered from the day of wrath?
31 - Who denounces his conduct to his face? Who repays him for what he has done?
32 - He is carried to the grave, and watch is kept over his tomb.
33 - The soil in the valley is sweet to him; all men follow after him, and a countless throng goes before him.
34 - "So how can you console me with your nonsense? Nothing is left of your answers but falsehood!"

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Job 21 NIV - English Bible Online

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