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Job - ch 21 v 1 - 20
- Then Job answered,
- "Listen diligently to my speech. Let this be your consolation.
- Allow me, and I also will speak; After I have spoken, mock on.
- As for me, is my complaint to man? Why shouldn't I be impatient?
- Look at me, and be astonished. Lay your hand on your mouth.
- When I remember, I am troubled. Horror takes hold of my flesh.
- "Why do the wicked live, become old, yes, and grow mighty in power?
- Their child is established with them in their sight, their offspring before their eyes.
- Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them.
- Their bulls breed without fail. Their cows calve, and don't miscarry.
- They send forth their little ones like a flock. Their children dance.
- They sing to the tambourine and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the pipe.
- They spend their days in prosperity. In an instant they go down to Sheol.
- They tell God, 'Depart from us, for we don't want to know about your ways.
- What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What profit should we have, if we pray to him?'
- Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand. The counsel of the wicked is far from me.
- "How often is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out, that their calamity comes on them, that God distributes sorrows in his anger?
- How often is it that they are as stubble before the wind, as chaff that the storm carries away?
- You say, 'God lays up his iniquity for his children.' Let him recompense it to himself, that he may know it.
- Let his own eyes see his destruction. Let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
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