[[Job 20|<< Job 20]] | [[Job|Job]] | [[Job 22|Job 22 >>]] ### Job 21 1 BUT Job answered and said, ^1 2 Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations. ^2 3 Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on. ^3 4 As for me, _is_ my complaint to man? and if _it_ _were_ _so_, why should not my spirit be troubled? ^4 5 Mark me, and be astonished, and lay _your_ hand upon _your_ mouth. ^5 6 Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling takes hold on my flesh. ^6 7 Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power? ^7 8 Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes. ^8 9 Their houses _are_ safe from fear, neither _is_ the rod of God upon them. ^9 10 Their bull genders, and fails not; their cow calves, and casts not her calf. ^10 11 They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance. ^11 12 They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ. ^12 13 They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave. ^13 14 Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways. ^14 15 What _is_ the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him? ^15 16 Lo, their good _is_ not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me. ^16 17 How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and _how_ _oft_ comes their destruction upon them! _God_ distributes sorrows in his anger. ^17 18 They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carries away. ^18 19 God lays up his iniquity for his children: he rewards him, and he shall know _it_. ^19 20 His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty. ^20 21 For what pleasure _hath_ he in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off in the midst? ^21 22 Shall _any_ teach God knowledge? seeing he judges those that are high. ^22 23 One dies in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet. ^23 24 His breasts are full of milk, and his bones are moistened with marrow. ^24 25 And another dies in the bitterness of his soul, and never eats with pleasure. ^25 26 They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them. ^26 27 Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices _which_ ye wrongfully imagine against me. ^27 28 For ye say, Where _is_ the house of the prince? and where _are_ the dwelling places of the wicked? ^28 29 Have ye not asked them that go by the way? and do ye not know their tokens, ^29 30 That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath. ^30 31 Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him _what_ he has done? ^31 32 Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb. ^32 33 The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, and every man shall draw after him, as _there_ _are_ innumerable before him. ^33 34 How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remains falsehood? ^34