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Job 21

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Job Says God Will Deal with the Wicked

 
Then Job answered, +
"Listen diligently to my speech.Let this be your consolation. +
Allow me, and I also will speak;After I have spoken, mock on. +
As for me, is my complaint to man?Why shouldn't I be impatient? +
Look at me, and be astonished.Lay your hand on your mouth. +
When I remember, I am troubled.Horror takes hold of my flesh. +
"Why do the wicked live,become old, yes, and grow mighty in power? +
Their child is established with them in their sight,their offspring before their eyes. +
Their houses are safe from fear,neither is the rod of God upon them. +
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Their bulls breed without fail.Their cows calve, and don't miscarry. +
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They send out their little ones like a flock.Their children dance. +
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They sing to the tambourine and harp,and rejoice at the sound of the pipe. +
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They spend their days in prosperity.In an instant they go down to Sheol. +
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They tell God, 'Depart from us,for we don't want to know about your ways. +
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What is the Almighty, that we should serve him?What profit should we have, if we pray to him?' +
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Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand.The counsel of the wicked is far from me. +
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"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? +
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How often is it that they are as stubble before the wind,as chaff that the storm carries away? +
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You say, 'God lays up his iniquity for his children.'Let him recompense it to himself, that he may know it. +
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Let his own eyes see his destruction.Let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty. +
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For what does he care for his house after him,when the number of his months is cut off? +
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"Shall any teach God knowledge,since he judges those who are high? +
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One dies in his full strength,being wholly at ease and quiet. +
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His pails are full of milk.The marrow of his bones is moistened. +
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Another dies in bitterness of soul,and never tastes of good.
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They lie down alike in the dust.The worm covers them. +
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"Behold, I know your thoughts,the devices with which you would wrong me. +
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For you say, 'Where is the house of the prince?Where is the tent in which the wicked lived?' +
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Haven't you asked wayfaring men?Don't you know their evidences, +
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that the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity,That they are led out to the day of wrath? +
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Who shall declare his way to his face?Who shall repay him what he has done? +
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Yet he will be borne to the grave.Men shall keep watch over the tomb. +
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The clods of the valley shall be sweet to him.All men shall draw after him,as there were innumerable before him. +
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So how can you comfort me with nonsense,because in your answers there remains only falsehood?" +


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