Geneva1599 - Job - 21

21:1  Bvt Iob answered, and sayd,

21:2  Heare diligently my wordes, and this shalbe in stead of your consolations.

21:3  Suffer mee, that I may speake, and when I haue spoken, mocke on.

21:4  Doe I direct my talke to man? If it were so, how should not my spirit be troubled?

21:5  Marke mee, and be abashed, and lay your hand vpon your mouth.

21:6  Euen when I remember, I am afrayde, and feare taketh hold on my flesh.

21:7  Wherefore do the wicked liue, and waxe olde, and grow in wealth?

21:8  Their seede is established in their sight with them, and their generation before their eyes.

21:9  Their houses are peaceable without feare, and the rod of God is not vpon them.

21:10  Their bullocke gendreth, and fayleth not: their cow calueth, and casteth not her calfe.

21:11  They send forth their children like sheepe, and their sonnes dance.

21:12  They take the tabret and harpe, and reioyce in the sound of the organs.

21:13  They spend their dayes in wealth, and suddenly they go downe to the graue.

21:14  They say also vnto God, Depart from vs: for we desire not the knowledge of thy wayes.

21:15  Who is the Almightie, that we should serue him? and what profit should we haue, if we should pray vnto him?

21:16  Lo, their wealth is not in their hand: therfore let the counsell of the wicked bee farre from me.

21:17  How oft shall the candle of the wicked be put out? and their destruction come vpon them? he wil deuide their liues in his wrath.

21:18  They shall be as stubble before the winde, and as chaffe that the storme carieth away.

21:19  God wil lay vp the sorowe of the father for his children: when he rewardeth him, hee shall knowe it.

21:20  His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drinke of the wrath of the Almightie.

21:21  For what pleasure hath he in his house after him, when the nomber of his moneths is cut off?

21:22  Shall any teache God knowledge, who iudgeth the highest things?

21:23  One dyeth in his full strength, being in all ease and prosperitie.

21:24  His breasts are full of milke, and his bones runne full of marowe.

21:25  And another dieth in the bitternes of his soule, and neuer eateth with pleasure.

21:26  They shall sleepe both in the dust, and the wormes shall couer them.

21:27  Behold, I know your thoughts, and the enterprises, wherewith ye do me wrong.

21:28  For ye say, Where is the princes house? and where is the tabernacle of the wickeds dwelling?

21:29  May ye not aske the that go by the way? and ye can not deny their signes.

21:30  But the wicked is kept vnto the day of destruction, and they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.

21:31  Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall reward him for that he hath done?

21:32  Yet shall he be brought to the graue, and remaine in the heape.

21:33  The slimie valley shalbe sweete vnto him, and euery man shall draw after him, as before him there were innumerable.

21:34  How then comfort ye me in vaine, seeing in your answeres there remaine but lyes?