# Job 21 [[Job 20|←]] • [[Job 22|→]] --- ### 1 But Job answered and said, ### 2 Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations. ### 3 Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on. ### 4 As for me, my complaint to man? and if why should not my spirit be troubled? ### 5 Mark me, and be astonished, and lay hand upon mouth. ### 6 Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh. ### 7 Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power? ### 8 Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes. ### 9 Their houses safe from fear, neither the rod of God upon them. ### 10 Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf. ### 11 They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance. ### 12 They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ. ### 13 They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave. ### 14 Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways. ### 15 What the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him? ### 16 Lo, their good not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me. ### 17 How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and cometh their destruction upon them! distributeth sorrows in his anger. ### 18 They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away. ### 19 God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know ### 20 His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty. ### 21 For what pleasure he in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off in the midst? ### 22 Shall teach God knowledge? seeing he judgeth those that are high. ### 23 One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet. ### 24 His breasts are full of milk, and his bones are moistened with marrow. ### 25 And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never eateth with pleasure. ### 26 They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them. ### 27 Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices ye wrongfully imagine against me. ### 28 For ye say, Where the house of the prince? and where the dwelling places of the wicked? ### 29 Have ye not asked them that go by the way? and do ye not know their tokens, ### 30 That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath. ### 31 Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him he hath done? ### 32 Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb. ### 33 The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, and every man shall draw after him, as innumerable before him. ### 34 How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood?