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21:1  But Job answered and said,
21:2  Hear diligently my speech, and let this be instead of your consolations.
21:3  Suffer me that I may speak; and after I have spoken, mock on.
21:4  As for me, is my complaint to man? And if so, why should not my spirit be troubled?
21:5  Look upon me and be astonished and lay your hand upon your mouth.
21:6  Even I myself, when I remember, I am afraid, and trembling takes hold on my flesh.
21:7  Why do the wicked live and become old and even increase in riches?
21:8  Their seed is with them, established in their sight, and their offspring before their eyes.
21:9  Their houses are safe from fear; neither is the rod of God upon them.
21:10  Their cows conceive, and do not abort; their cows calve and do not cast forth their young.
21:11  They send forth their little ones like a flock of sheep, and their children dance.
21:12  They jump at the sound of the timbrel and harp and rejoice at the sound of the organ.
21:13  They spend their days in pleasure and in a moment go down to Sheol.
21:14  Therefore, they say unto God, Depart from us; for we do not desire the knowledge of thy ways.
21:15  Who is the Almighty that we should serve him? And what profit should we have if we pray unto him?
21:16  Behold that their good is not in their hands; the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
21:17  How often is the lamp of the wicked put out and their destruction comes upon them, and God distributes sorrows upon them in his anger.
21:18  They shall be as stubble before the wind and as chaff taken up by the whirlwind.
21:19  God shall lay up his violence for their sons; and he will reward him so that he shall know it.
21:20  His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
21:21  For what delight shall he have in his house after him, being cut off in the number of his months?
21:22  Shall he teach God knowledge, seeing he judges those that are high?
21:23  This one shall die in the full strength of his beauty, being completely at ease and quiet.
21:24  His breasts are full of milk, and his bones are moistened with marrow.
21:25  And another dies in the bitterness of his soul, never having eaten with pleasure.
21:26  They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them.
21:27  Behold, I know your thoughts and the imaginations which ye devise against me.
21:28  For ye say, What is of the house of the prince, and what of the tent of the habitation of the wicked?
21:29  Have ye not asked those that go by the way, and do ye not know their tokens?
21:30  That the wicked is reserved for the day of destruction, they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.
21:31  Who shall declare his way to his face? And who shall repay him what he has done?
21:32  He shall yet be brought to the grave and shall remain in the tomb.
21:33  The clods of the river valley shall be sweet unto him, and every man shall be drawn after him, as there were innumerable before him.
21:34  How then do ye comfort me in vain, given that your answers remain as falsehood?