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Job - ch 21 v 1 - 20
- And Job answereth and saith: --
- Hear ye diligently my word, And this is your consolation.
- Bear with me, and I speak, And after my speaking -- ye may deride.
- I -- to man `is' my complaint? and if `so', wherefore May not my temper become short?
- Turn unto me, and be astonished, And put hand to mouth.
- Yea, if I have remembered, then I have been troubled. And my flesh hath taken fright.
- Wherefore do the wicked live? They have become old, Yea, they have been mighty in wealth.
- Their seed is established, Before their face with them, And their offspring before their eyes.
- Their houses `are' peace without fear, Nor `is' a rod of God upon them.
- His bullock hath eaten corn, and doth not loath. His cow bringeth forth safely, And doth not miscarry.
- They send forth as a flock their sucklings, And their children skip,
- They lift `themselves' up at timbrel and harp, And rejoice at the sound of an organ.
- They wear out in good their days, And in a moment `to' Sheol go down.
- And they say to God, `Turn aside from us, And the knowledge of Thy ways We have not desired.
- What `is' the Mighty One that we serve Him? And what do we profit when we meet with Him?'
- Lo, not in their hand `is' their good, (The counsel of the wicked Hath been far from me.)
- How oft is the lamp of the wicked extinguished, And come on them doth their calamity? Pangs He apportioneth in His anger.
- They are as straw before wind, And as chaff a hurricane hath stolen away,
- God layeth up for his sons his sorrow, He giveth recompense unto him -- and he knoweth.
- His own eyes see his destruction, And of the wrath of the Mighty he drinketh.
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