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21:1  But Job answered and said:
21:2  “Hear diligently my speech, and let this be 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 it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled?
21:5  Mark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth!
21:6  Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh.
21:7  Why do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?
21:8  Their seed is established in their sight with them, 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 bull breeds, and faileth not; their cow calveth and casteth not her calf.
21:11  They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.
21:12  They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ.
21:13  They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.
21:14  Therefore they say unto God, ‘Depart from us, for we desire not the knowledge of Thy ways.
21:15  What is the Almighty, that we should serve Him? And what profit should we have, if we pray unto Him?’
21:16  Lo, their good is not in their hand; the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
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.
21:18  They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.
21:19  God layeth up his iniquity for his children; He rewardeth him, and 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 pleasure hath he in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off in the midst?
21:22  “Shall any teach God knowledge, seeing He judgeth those that are high?
21:23  One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.
21:24  His milk pails are full of milk, and his bones are moistened with marrow.
21:25  And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never eateth 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 devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me.
21:28  For ye say, ‘Where is the house of the prince? And where are the dwelling places of the wicked?’
21:29  Have ye not asked them that go along the way? And do ye not know their tokens,
21:30  that the wicked are reserved for the day of destruction? They shall be brought forth on the day of wrath.
21:31  Who shall declare his way to his face? And who shall repay him what he hath done?
21:32  Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb.
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.
21:34  “How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood?”