King James Version

Job 21

Job in the King James Version. Each verse number opens that verse. Study, in the row above the verse, opens the Hebrew, the notes, the other translations, and the connections.

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Open Job 21:1

But Job answered and said,
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Open Job 21:2

Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations.
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Open Job 21:3

Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on.
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Open Job 21:4

As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled?
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Open Job 21:5

Mark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth.
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Open Job 21:6

Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh.
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Open Job 21:7

Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?
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Open Job 21:8

Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes.
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Open Job 21:9

Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them.
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Open Job 21:10

Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf.
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Open Job 21:11

They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.
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Open Job 21:12

They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ.
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Open Job 21:13

They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.
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Open Job 21:14

Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.
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Open Job 21:15

What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?
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Open Job 21:16

Lo, their good is not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
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Open Job 21:17

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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Open Job 21:18

They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.
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Open Job 21:19

God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know it.
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Open Job 21:20

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

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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Open Job 21:22

Shall any teach God knowledge? seeing he judgeth those that are high.
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Open Job 21:23

One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.
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Open Job 21:24

His breasts are full of milk, and his bones are moistened with marrow.
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Open Job 21:25

And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never eateth with pleasure.
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Open Job 21:26

They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them.
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Open Job 21:27

Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me.
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Open Job 21:28

For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked?
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Open Job 21:29

Have ye not asked them that go by the way? and do ye not know their tokens,
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Open Job 21:30

That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.
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Open Job 21:31

Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him what he hath done?
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Open Job 21:32

Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb.
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Open Job 21:33

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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Open Job 21:34

How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood?

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