Jubilee2000 - Job - 21

21:1  But Job answered and said,

21:2  Hear diligently my speech, and let this be [instead of] your consolations.

21:3  Suffer me that I may speak; and after I have spoken, mock on.

21:4  As for me, [is] my complaint to man? And if so, why should not my spirit be troubled?

21:5  Look upon me and be astonished and lay [your] hand upon [your] mouth.

21:6  [Even I myself], when I remember, I am afraid, and trembling takes hold on my flesh.

21:7  Why do the wicked live and become old and even increase in riches?

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

21:9  Their houses [are] safe from fear; neither [is] the rod of God upon them.

21:10  Their cows conceive, and do not abort; their cows calve and do not cast forth their young.

21:11  They send forth their little ones like [a flock of] sheep, and their children dance.

21:12  They jump at the sound of the timbrel and harp and rejoice at the sound of the organ.

21:13  They spend their days in pleasure and in a moment go down to Sheol.

21:14  Therefore, they say unto God, Depart from us; for we do not desire the knowledge of thy ways.

21:15  Who [is] the Almighty that we should serve him? And what profit should we have if we pray unto him?

21:16  Behold that their good [is] not in their hands; the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

21:17  How often is the candle of the wicked put out and their destruction comes upon them, and [God] distributes sorrows upon them in his anger.

21:18  They shall be as stubble before the wind and as chaff taken up by the whirlwind.

21:19  God shall lay up his violence for [their] sons; and he will reward him so that he shall know [it].

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

21:21  For what delight shall he have in his house after him, being cut off in the number of his months?

21:22  Shall he teach God knowledge, seeing he judges those that are high?

21:23  This one shall die in the full strength of his beauty, being completely at ease and quiet.

21:24  His breasts are full of milk, and his bones are moistened with marrow.

21:25  And another dies in the bitterness of his soul, never having eaten with pleasure.

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 imaginations which ye devise against me.

21:28  For ye say, What [is] of the house of the prince, and what of the tent of the habitation of the wicked?

21:29  Have ye not asked those that go by the way, and do ye not know their tokens?

21:30  That the wicked is reserved for the day of destruction, they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.

21:31  Who shall declare his way to his face? And who shall repay him [what] he has done?

21:32  He shall yet be brought to the grave and shall remain in the tomb.

21:33  The clods of the river [valley] shall be sweet unto him, and every man shall be drawn after him, as [there were] innumerable before him.

21:34  How then do ye comfort me in vain, [given] that your answers remain as falsehood?: