Job 21

1 Then Job answered,WEB — Job 21:1

2 “Listen diligently to my speech. Let this be your consolation.WEB — Job 21:2

3 Allow me, and I also will speak; After I have spoken, mock on.WEB — Job 21:3

4 As for me, is my complaint to man? Why shouldn't I be impatient?WEB — Job 21:4

5 Look at me, and be astonished. Lay your hand on your mouth.WEB — Job 21:5

6 When I remember, I am troubled. Horror takes hold of my flesh.WEB — Job 21:6

7 “Why do the wicked live, Become old, yes, and grow mighty in power?WEB — Job 21:7

8 Their child is established with them in their sight, Their offspring before their eyes.WEB — Job 21:8

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

10 Their bulls breed without fail. Their cows calve, and don't miscarry.WEB — Job 21:10

11 They send forth their little ones like a flock. Their children dance.WEB — Job 21:11

12 They sing to the tambourine and harp, And rejoice at the sound of the pipe.WEB — Job 21:12

13 They spend their days in prosperity. In an instant they go down to Sheol.WEB — Job 21:13

14 They tell God, ‘Depart from us, For we don't want to know about your ways.WEB — Job 21:14

15 What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What profit should we have, if we pray to him?’WEB — Job 21:15

16 Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand: The counsel of the wicked is far from me.WEB — Job 21:16

17 “How often is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out? That their calamity comes on them? That God distributes sorrows in his anger?WEB — Job 21:17

18 That they are as stubble before the wind, As chaff that the storm carries away?WEB — Job 21:18

19 You say, ‘God lays up his iniquity for his children.’ Let him recompense it to himself, that he may know it.WEB — Job 21:19

20 Let his own eyes see his destruction. Let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.WEB — Job 21:20

21 For what does he care for his house after him, When the number of his months is cut off?WEB — Job 21:21

22 “Shall any teach God knowledge, Seeing he judges those who are high?WEB — Job 21:22

23 One dies in his full strength, Being wholly at ease and quiet.WEB — Job 21:23

24 His pails are full of milk. The marrow of his bones is moistened.WEB — Job 21:24

25 Another dies in bitterness of soul, And never tastes of good.WEB — Job 21:25

26 They lie down alike in the dust, The worm covers them.WEB — Job 21:26

27 “Behold, I know your thoughts, The devices with which you would wrong me.WEB — Job 21:27

28 For you say, ‘Where is the house of the prince? Where is the tent in which the wicked lived?’WEB — Job 21:28

29 Haven't you asked wayfaring men? Don't you know their evidences,WEB — Job 21:29

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

31 Who shall declare his way to his face? Who shall repay him what he has done?WEB — Job 21:31

32 Yet shall he be borne to the grave, Men shall keep watch over the tomb.WEB — Job 21:32

33 The clods of the valley shall be sweet to him. All men shall draw after him, As there were innumerable before him.WEB — Job 21:33

34 So how can you comfort me with nonsense, Seeing that in your answers there remains only falsehood?”WEB — Job 21:34