Job 21 (NET)

Job 21:1¹Then Job answered:Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 21:2²“Listen carefully to my words; let this be the consolation you offer me.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 21:3³Bear with me and I will speak, and after I have spoken you may mock.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 21:4⁴Is my complaint against a man? If so, why should I not be impatient?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 21:5⁵Look at me and be appalled; put your hands over your mouths.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 21:6⁶For, when I think about this, I am terrified and my body feels a shudder.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 21:7⁷“Why do the wicked go on living, grow old, even increase in power?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 21:8⁸Their children are firmly established in their presence, their offspring before their eyes.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 21:9⁹Their houses are safe and without fear; and no rod of punishment from God is upon them.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 21:10¹⁰Their bulls breed without fail; their cows calve and do not miscarry.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 21:11¹¹They allow their children to run like a flock; their little ones dance about.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 21:12¹²They sing to the accompaniment of tambourine and harp, and make merry to the sound of the flute.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 21:13¹³They live out their years in prosperity and go down to the grave in peace.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 21:14¹⁴So they say to God, ‘Turn away from us! We do not want to know your ways.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 21:15¹⁵Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What would we gain if we were to pray to him?’Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 21:16¹⁶But their prosperity is not their own doing. The counsel of the wicked is far from me!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 21:17¹⁷“How often is the lamp of the wicked extinguished? How often does their misfortune come upon them? How often does God apportion pain to them in his anger?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 21:18¹⁸How often are they like straw before the wind, and like chaff swept away by a whirlwind?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 21:19¹⁹You may say, ‘God stores up a man’s punishment for his children!’ Instead let him repay the man himself so that he may be humbled!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 21:20²⁰Let his own eyes see his destruction; let him drink of the anger of the Almighty.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 21:21²¹For what is his interest in his home after his death, when the number of his months has been broken off?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 21:22²²Can anyone teach God knowledge, since he judges those that are on high?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 21:23²³“One man dies in his full vigor, completely secure and prosperous,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 21:24²⁴his body well nourished, and the marrow of his bones moist.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 21:25²⁵And another man dies in bitterness of soul, never having tasted anything good.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 21:26²⁶Together they lie down in the dust, and worms cover over them both.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 21:27²⁷“Yes, I know what you are thinking, the schemes by which you would wrong me.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 21:28²⁸For you say, ‘Where now is the nobleman’s house, and where are the tents in which the wicked lived?’Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 21:29²⁹Have you never questioned those who travel the roads? Do you not recognize their accounts —Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 21:30³⁰that the evil man is spared from the day of his misfortune, that he is delivered from the day of God’s wrath?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 21:31³¹No one denounces his conduct to his face; no one repays him for what he has done.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 21:32³²And when he is carried to the tombs, and watch is kept over the funeral mound,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 21:33³³The clods of the torrent valley are sweet to him; behind him everybody follows in procession, and before him goes a countless throng.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 21:34³⁴So how can you console me with your futile words? Nothing is left of your answers but deception!”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions