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Job 21
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Current outline context
- Satan’s First Attack 1:6–22
- Job Loses His Children and Possessions 1:13–22
- The Debates of Job 3:1–37:24
- Job’s Opening Lament 3:1–26
- The Innocent Prosper 4:1–21
- God Blesses those Who Seek Him 5:1–27
- My Complaint is Just 6:1–30
- Life Seems Futile 7:1–21
- Job Should Repent 8:1–22
- How Can I Contend with God? 9:1–35
- Job’s Plea to God 10:1–22
- Job presents His Case 12:1–25
- Job Prepares His Case 13:1–28
- Job Laments the Finality of Death 14:1–22
- The Second Cycle of Debates 15:1–21:34
- Job Does Not Fear God 15:1–35
- Job Decries His Comforters 16:1–22
- God Punishes the Wicked 18:1–21
- Job Replies to Bildad 19:1–29
- Zophar’s Second Speech 20:1–21:34
- Destruction Awaits the Wicked 20:1–29
- Job Replies to Zophar 21:1–34
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Then Job answered:
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“Listen carefully to my words; let this be your consolation to me.
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Bear with me while I speak; then, after I have spoken, you may go on mocking.
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Is my complaint against a man? Then why should I not be impatient?
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Look at me and be appalled; put your hand over your mouth.
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When I remember, terror takes hold, and my body trembles in horror.
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Why do the wicked live on, growing old and increasing in power?
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Their descendants are established around them, and their offspring before their eyes.
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Their homes are safe from fear; no rod of punishment from God is upon them.
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Their bulls breed without fail; their cows bear calves and do not miscarry.
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They send forth their little ones like a flock; their children skip about,
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singing to the tambourine and lyre and making merry at the sound of the flute.
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They spend their days in prosperity and go down to Sheol in peace.
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Yet they say to God: ‘Leave us alone! For we have no desire to know Your ways.
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Who is the Almighty, that we should serve Him, and what would we gain if we pray to Him?’
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Still, their prosperity is not in their own hands, so I stay far from the counsel of the wicked.
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How often is the lamp of the wicked put out? Does disaster come upon them? Does God, in His anger, apportion destruction?
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Are they like straw before the wind, like chaff swept away by a storm?
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It is said that God lays up one’s punishment for his children. Let God repay the man himself, so he will know it.
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Let his eyes see his own destruction; let him drink for himself the wrath of the Almighty.
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For what does he care about his household after him, when the number of his months has run out?
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Can anyone teach knowledge to God, since He judges those on high?
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One man dies full of vigor, completely secure and at ease.
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His body is well nourished, and his bones are rich with marrow.
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Yet another man dies in the bitterness of his soul, having never tasted prosperity.
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But together they lie down in the dust, and worms cover them both.
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Behold, I know your thoughts full well, the schemes by which you would wrong me.
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For you say, ‘Where now is the nobleman’s house, and where are the tents in which the wicked dwell?’
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Have you never asked those who travel the roads? Do you not accept their reports?
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Indeed, the evil man is spared from the day of calamity, delivered from the day of wrath.
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Who denounces his behavior to his face? Who repays him for what he has done?
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He is carried to the grave, and watch is kept over his tomb.
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The clods of the valley are sweet to him; everyone follows behind him, and those before him are without number.
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So how can you comfort me with empty words? For your answers remain full of falsehood.”
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