21Job 21

1But Job answered and said,Select Job 21:1

2Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations.Select Job 21:2

3Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on.Select Job 21:3

4As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled?Select Job 21:4

5Mark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand on your mouth.Select Job 21:5

6Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling takes hold on my flesh.Select Job 21:6

7Why do the wicked live, become old, yes, are mighty in power?Select Job 21:7

8Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes.Select Job 21:8

9Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God on them.Select Job 21:9

10Their bull engenders, and fails not; their cow calves, and casts not her calf.Select Job 21:10

11They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.Select Job 21:11

12They take the tambourine and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ.Select Job 21:12

13They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.Select Job 21:13

14Therefore they say to God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of your ways.Select Job 21:14

15What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray to him?Select Job 21:15

16See, their good is not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me.Select Job 21:16

17How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and how oft comes their destruction on them! God distributes sorrows in his anger.Select Job 21:17

18They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carries away.Select Job 21:18

19God lays up his iniquity for his children: he rewards him, and he shall know it.Select Job 21:19

20His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty.Select Job 21:20

21For what pleasure has he in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off in the middle?Select Job 21:21

22Shall any teach God knowledge? seeing he judges those that are high.Select Job 21:22

23One dies in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.Select Job 21:23

24His breasts are full of milk, and his bones are moistened with marrow.Select Job 21:24

25And another dies in the bitterness of his soul, and never eats with pleasure.Select Job 21:25

26They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them.Select Job 21:26

27Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which you wrongfully imagine against me.Select Job 21:27

28For you say, Where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked?Select Job 21:28

29Have you not asked them that go by the way? and do you not know their tokens,Select Job 21:29

30That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.Select Job 21:30

31Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him what he has done?Select Job 21:31

32Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb.Select Job 21:32

33The clods of the valley shall be sweet to him, and every man shall draw after him, as there are innumerable before him.Select Job 21:33

34How then comfort you me in vain, seeing in your answers there remains falsehood?Select Job 21:34