The Book of Job 21

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1 But Job answered and said ⚑

2 Hear diligently my speech and let this be your consolations ⚑

3 Suffer me that I may speak and after that I have spoken mock on ⚑

4 As for me is my complaint to man and if it were so why should not my spirit be troubled ⚑

5 Mark me and be astonished and lay your hand upon your mouth ⚑

6 Even when I remember I am afraid and trembling taketh hold on my flesh ⚑

7 Wherefore do the wicked live become old yea are mighty in power ⚑

8 Their seed is established in their sight with them and their offspring before their eyes ⚑

9 Their houses are safe from fear neither is the rod of God upon them ⚑

10 Their bull gendereth and faileth not their cow calveth and casteth not her calf ⚑

11 They send forth their little ones like a flock and their children dance ⚑

12 They take the timbrel and harp and rejoice at the sound of the organ ⚑

13 They spend their days in wealth and in a moment go down to the grave ⚑

14 Therefore they say unto God Depart from us for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways ⚑

15 What is the Almighty that we should serve him and what profit should we have if we pray unto him ⚑

16 Lo their good is not in their hand the counsel of the wicked is far from me ⚑

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 ⚑

18 They are as stubble before the wind and as chaff that the storm carrieth away ⚑

19 God layeth up his iniquity for his children he rewardeth him and he shall know it ⚑

20 His eyes shall see his destruction and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty ⚑

21 For what pleasure hath he in his house after him when the number of his months is cut off in the midst ⚑

22 Shall any teach God knowledge seeing he judgeth those that are high ⚑

23 One dieth in his full strength being wholly at ease and quiet ⚑

24 His breasts are full of milk and his bones are moistened with marrow ⚑

25 And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul and never eateth with pleasure ⚑

26 They shall lie down alike in the dust and the worms shall cover them ⚑

27 Behold I know your thoughts and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me ⚑

28 For ye say Where is the house of the prince and where are the dwelling places of the wicked ⚑

29 Have ye not asked them that go by the way and do ye not know their tokens ⚑

30 That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath ⚑

31 Who shall declare his way to his face and who shall repay him what he hath done ⚑

32 Yet shall he be brought to the grave and shall remain in the tomb ⚑

33 The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him and every man shall draw after him as there are innumerable before him ⚑

34 How then comfort ye me in vain seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood ⚑

King James Version (1769) with Apocrypha · Crosswire Bible Society / eBible.org (standard text of 1769) · Public Domain

Cross-references: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge · public domain