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Job - ch 21 v 1 - 20
- Then Job answered and said,
- Hear diligently my speech; And let this be your consolations.
- Suffer me, and I also will speak; And after that I have spoken, mock on.
- As for me, is my complaint to man? And why should I not be impatient?
- Mark me, and be astonished, And lay your hand upon your mouth.
- Even when I remember I am troubled, And horror taketh hold on my flesh.
- Wherefore do the wicked live, Become old, yea, wax mighty in power?
- Their seed is established with them in their sight, And their offspring before their eyes.
- Their houses are safe from fear, Neither is the rod of God upon them.
- Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; Their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf.
- They send forth their little ones like a flock, And their children dance.
- They sing to the timbrel and harp, And rejoice at the sound of the pipe.
- They spend their days in prosperity, And in a moment they go down to Sheol.
- And they say unto God, Depart from us; For we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.
- What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? And what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?
- Lo, their prosperity is not in their hand: The counsel of the wicked is far from me.
- How oft is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out? That their calamity cometh upon them? That `God' distributeth sorrows in his anger?
- That they are as stubble before the wind, And as chaff that the storm carrieth away?
- `Ye say', God layeth up his iniquity for his children. Let him recompense it unto himself, that he may know it:
- Let his own eyes see his destruction, And let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
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