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