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