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Job 21:1 (ASV)
Then Job answered and said,

Job 21:2 (ASV)
Hear diligently my speech; And let this be your consolations.

Job 21:3 (ASV)
Suffer me, and I also will speak; And after that I have spoken, mock on.

Job 21:4 (ASV)
As for me, is my complaint to man? And why should I not be impatient?

Job 21:5 (ASV)
Mark me, and be astonished, And lay your hand upon your mouth.

Job 21:6 (ASV)
Even when I remember I am troubled, And horror taketh hold on my flesh.

Job 21:7 (ASV)
Wherefore do the wicked live, Become old, yea, wax mighty in power?

Job 21:8 (ASV)
Their seed is established with them in their sight, And their offspring before their eyes.

Job 21:9 (ASV)
Their houses are safe from fear, Neither is the rod of God upon them.

Job 21:10 (ASV)
Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; Their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf.

Job 21:11 (ASV)
They send forth their little ones like a flock, And their children dance.

Job 21:12 (ASV)
They sing to the timbrel and harp, And rejoice at the sound of the pipe.

Job 21:13 (ASV)
They spend their days in prosperity, And in a moment they go down to Sheol.

Job 21:14 (ASV)
And they say unto God, Depart from us; For we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.

Job 21:15 (ASV)
What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? And what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?

Job 21:16 (ASV)
Lo, their prosperity is not in their hand: The counsel of the wicked is far from me.

Job 21:17 (ASV)
How oft is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out? That their calamity cometh upon them? That `God' distributeth sorrows in his anger?

Job 21:18 (ASV)
That they are as stubble before the wind, And as chaff that the storm carrieth away?

Job 21:19 (ASV)
`Ye say', God layeth up his iniquity for his children. Let him recompense it unto himself, that he may know it:

Job 21:20 (ASV)
Let his own eyes see his destruction, And let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.

Job 21:21 (ASV)
For what careth he for his house after him, When the number of his months is cut off?

Job 21:22 (ASV)
Shall any teach God knowledge, Seeing he judgeth those that are high?

Job 21:23 (ASV)
One dieth in his full strength, Being wholly at ease and quiet:

Job 21:24 (ASV)
His pails are full of milk, And the marrow of his bones is moistened.

Job 21:25 (ASV)
And another dieth in bitterness of soul, And never tasteth of good.

Job 21:26 (ASV)
They lie down alike in the dust, And the worm covereth them.

Job 21:27 (ASV)
Behold, I know your thoughts, And the devices wherewith ye would wrong me.

Job 21:28 (ASV)
For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? And where is the tent wherein the wicked dwelt?

Job 21:29 (ASV)
Have ye not asked wayfaring men? And do ye not know their evidences,

Job 21:30 (ASV)
That the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity? That they are led forth to the day of wrath?

Job 21:31 (ASV)
Who shall declare his way to his face? And who shall repay him what he hath done?

Job 21:32 (ASV)
Yet shall he be borne to the grave, And men shall keep watch over the tomb.

Job 21:33 (ASV)
The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, And all men shall draw after him, As there were innumerable before him.

Job 21:34 (ASV)
How then comfort ye me in vain, Seeing in your answers there remaineth `only' falsehood?

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