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But Job answered and said, (21:1)

Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations (21:2)

Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on (21:3)

As for me, [is] my complaint to man? and if [it were so], why should not my spirit be troubled? (21:4)

Mark me, and be astonished, and lay [your] hand upon [your] mouth (21:5)

Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh (21:6)

Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power? (21:7)

Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes (21:8)

Their houses [are] safe from fear, neither [is] the rod of God upon them (21:9)

Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf (21:10)

They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance (21:11)

They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ (21:12)

They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave (21:13)

Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways (21:14)

What [is] the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him? (21:15)

Lo, their good [is] not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me (21:16)

How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and [how oft] cometh their destruction upon them! [God] distributeth sorrows in his anger (21:17)

They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away (21:18)

God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know [it] (21:19)

His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty (21:20)

For what pleasure [hath] he in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off in the midst? (21:21)

Shall [any] teach God knowledge? seeing he judgeth those that are high (21:22)

One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet (21:23)

His breasts are full of milk, and his bones are moistened with marrow (21:24)

And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never eateth with pleasure (21:25)

They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them (21:26)

Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices [which] ye wrongfully imagine against me (21:27)

For ye say, Where [is] the house of the prince? and where [are] the dwelling places of the wicked? (21:28)

Have ye not asked them that go by the way? and do ye not know their tokens, (21:29)

That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath (21:30)

Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him [what] he hath done? (21:31)

Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb (21:32)

The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, and every man shall draw after him, as [there are] innumerable before him (21:33)

How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood? (21:34)

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