Job 21 Background Information with Maps and Images (Picture Study Bible - Job) Free Bible Online

1 - Then Job answered,

2 - "Listen diligently to my speech.Let this be your consolation.

3 - Allow me, and I also will speak;After I have spoken, mock on.

4 - As for me, is my complaint to man?Why shouldn't I be impatient?

5 - Look at me, and be astonished.Lay your hand on your mouth.

6 - When I remember, I am troubled.Horror takes hold of my flesh.

7 - "Why do the wicked live,become old, yes, and grow mighty in power?

8 - Their child is established with them in their sight,their offspring before their eyes.

9 - Their houses are safe from fear,neither is the rod of God upon them.

10 - Their bulls breed without fail.Their cows calve, and don't miscarry.

11 - They send out their little ones like a flock.Their children dance.

12 - They sing to the tambourine and harp,and rejoice at the sound of the pipe.

13 - They spend their days in prosperity.In an instant they go down to Sheol.

14 - They tell God, 'Depart from us,for we don't want to know about your ways.

15 - What is the Almighty, that we should serve him?What profit should we have, if we pray to him?'

16 - Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand.The counsel of the wicked is far from me.

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?

18 - How often is it that they are as stubble before the wind,as chaff that the storm carries away?

19 - You say, 'God lays up his iniquity for his children.'Let him recompense it to himself, that he may know it.

20 - Let his own eyes see his destruction.Let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.

21 - For what does he care for his house after him,when the number of his months is cut off?

22 - "Shall any teach God knowledge,since he judges those who are high?

23 - One dies in his full strength,being wholly at ease and quiet.

24 - His pails are full of milk.The marrow of his bones is moistened.

25 - Another dies in bitterness of soul,and never tastes of good.

26 - They lie down alike in the dust.The worm covers them.

27 - "Behold, I know your thoughts,the devices with which you would wrong me.

28 - For you say, 'Where is the house of the prince?Where is the tent in which the wicked lived?'

29 - Haven't you asked wayfaring men?Don't you know their evidences,

30 - that the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity,That they are led out to the day of wrath?