{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/kjv/job021.htm","path":"bib/kjv/job021.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/kjv/job021.htm","text":"1\u00a0But Job answered and said,\n \n2\u00a0Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations.\n \n3\u00a0Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on.\n \n4\u00a0As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled?\n \n5\u00a0Mark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth.\n \n6\u00a0Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh.\n \n7\u00a0Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?\n \n8\u00a0Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes.\n \n9\u00a0Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them.\n \n10\u00a0Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf.\n \n11\u00a0They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.\n \n12\u00a0They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ.\n \n13\u00a0They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.\n \n14\u00a0Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.\n \n15\u00a0What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?\n \n16\u00a0Lo, their good is not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me.\n \n17\u00a0How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and how oft cometh their destruction upon them! God distributeth sorrows in his anger.\n \n18\u00a0They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.\n \n19\u00a0God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know it.\n \n20\u00a0His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty.\n \n21\u00a0For what pleasure hath he in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off in the midst?\n \n22\u00a0Shall any teach God knowledge? seeing he judgeth those that are high.\n \n23\u00a0One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.\n \n24\u00a0His breasts are full of milk, and his bones are moistened with marrow.\n \n25\u00a0And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never eateth with pleasure.\n \n26\u00a0They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them.\n \n27\u00a0Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me.\n \n28\u00a0For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked?\n \n29\u00a0Have ye not asked them that go by the way? and do ye not know their tokens,\n \n30\u00a0That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.\n \n31\u00a0Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him what he hath done?\n \n32\u00a0Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb.\n \n33\u00a0The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, and every man shall draw after him, as there are innumerable before him.\n \n34\u00a0How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood?","title":"King James Version: Job: Job Chapter 21","type":"page"}