Job 21 | Strong's Bible

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CHAPTER 21

Then Job

answered:

“Listen

carefully

to my words;

let this

be

your consolation to me.

Bear with

me while I

speak;

then after

I have spoken,

you may keep mocking.

Is my

complaint

against a man?

Then why

should I not

be impatient?

Look

at me

and be astonished;

put

your hand

over

your mouth.

When

I remember,

terror

takes hold,

and my body

trembles in horror.

Why

do the wicked

live on,

growing old

and

increasing

in power?

Their descendants

are established

around them,

and their offspring

before their eyes.

Their homes

are safe

from fear;

the rod

of God

is not

upon them.

Their bulls

breed

without

fail;

their cows

calve

and do not

miscarry.

They send forth

their little ones

like a flock;

their children

skip about,

singing

to the tambourine

and lyre

and making merry

at the sound

of the flute.

They spend

their days

in prosperity

and go down

to Sheol

in peace.

Yet they say

to God:

‘Leave us alone!

For we have no

desire

to know

Your ways.

Who

is the Almighty,

that

we should serve Him,

and what

would we gain

if

we pray

to Him?’

Yet

their prosperity is

not

in their own hands,

so I stay far

from the counsel

of the wicked.

How often

is the lamp

of the wicked

put out?

Does disaster

come

upon them?

Does God, in His anger,

apportion

destruction?

Are

they like straw

before

the wind,

like chaff

swept away

by a storm?

It is said that God

lays up

one's punishment

for his children.

Let God repay the man

himself,

so that he may know it.

Let his own eyes

see

his destruction;

let him drink for himself

the wrath

of the Almighty.

For

what

does he care

about his household

after him,

when the number

of his months

has run out?

Can anyone teach

knowledge

to God,

since He

judges

those on high?

One man

dies

full of vigor,

completely

secure

and at ease.

His body

is well fed,

and his bones

rich

with marrow.

Yet another man

dies

in the bitterness

of his soul,

having never

tasted

prosperity.

But together

they lie down

in

the dust,

and worms

cover

them both.

Behold,

I know

your thoughts full well,

the schemes by which

you would wrong

me.

For

you say,

‘Where

now is the nobleman’s

house,

and where

are the tents

in which the wicked

dwell?’

Have you never

asked

those who travel

the roads?

Do you not

accept

their reports?

Indeed,

the evil

man is spared

from the day

of calamity,

delivered

from the day

of wrath.

Who

will denounce

his behavior

to

his face?

Who

will repay

him

for what he

has done?

He

is carried

to the grave,

and watch is kept

over

his tomb.

The clods

of the valley

are sweet

to him;

everyone

follows

behind him,

and those before him

are without

number.

So how

can you comfort me

with empty words?

For your answers

remain

full of falsehood.”

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