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Job Chapter 21

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Job 21

1Then Job answered, and said:
2Hear, I beseech you, my words, and do penance.
Hebrews 2:1, Hebrews 2:1, Job 18:2, Judges 9:7, Job 13:3
3Suffer me, and I will speak, and after, if you please, laugh at my words.
Job 17:2, Job 16:10, Job 17:2, Job 16:10, Job 16:20
4Is my debate against man, that I should not have just reason to be troubled?
Psalms 42:11, Psalms 42:11, Job 6:11, 1 Samuel 1:16, Psalms 77:3
5Hearken to me and be astonished, and lay your finger on your mouth.
Job 40:4, Judges 18:19, Job 29:9, Job 40:4, Judges 18:19
6As for me, when I remember, I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh.
Habakkuk 3:16, Lamentations 3:19, Lamentations 3:20, Psalms 119:120, Psalms 77:3
7Why then do the wicked live, are they advanced, and strengthened with riches?
Psalms 73:3, Psalms 73:12, Psalms 73:3, Psalms 73:12, Job 12:6
8Their seed continueth before them, a multitude of kinsmen, and of children's children in their sight.
Proverbs 17:6, Proverbs 17:6, Job 5:3, Job 5:4, Job 20:28
9Their houses are secure and peaceable, and the rod of God is not upon them.
Job 9:34, Psalms 73:5, Job 9:34, Psalms 73:5, Job 15:21
10Their cattle have conceived, and failed not: their cow has calved, and is not deprived of her fruit.
Exodus 23:26, Exodus 23:26, Deuteronomy 7:13, Deuteronomy 7:14, Luke 12:16
11Their little ones go out like a flock, and their children dance and play.
Psalms 107:41, Psalms 127:3, Psalms 127:5, Psalms 107:41, Psalms 127:3
12They take the timbrel, and the harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ.
Isaiah 5:12, Genesis 4:21, Amos 6:4, Amos 6:6, Isaiah 5:12
13They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment they go down to hell.
Job 36:11, Job 36:11, Luke 17:28, Luke 17:29, Matthew 24:38
14Who have said to God: Depart from us, we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.
Job 22:17, Job 22:17, Romans 8:7, Romans 8:7, 2 Thessalonians 2:10
15Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what doth it profit us if we pray to him?
Exodus 5:2, Exodus 5:2, Job 34:9, Job 34:9, Malachi 1:13
16Yet because their good things are not in their hand, may the counsel of the wicked be far from me.
Job 22:18, Job 22:18, Psalms 1:1, Psalms 1:1, Psalms 52:5
17How often shall the lamp of the wicked be put out, and a deluge come upon them, and he shall distribute the sorrows of his wrath?
Job 18:5, Job 18:6, Job 18:5, Job 18:6, Luke 12:46
18They shall be as chaff before the face of the wind, and as ashes which the whirlwind scattereth.
Psalms 1:4, Psalms 1:4, Psalms 35:5, Job 13:25, Psalms 83:13
19God shall lay up the sorrow of the father for his children: and when he shall repay, then shall he know.
Exodus 20:5, Exodus 20:5, Ezekiel 18:19, Ezekiel 18:20, Ezekiel 18:19
20His eyes shall see his own destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
Isaiah 51:17, Revelation 14:10, Isaiah 51:17, Revelation 14:10, Psalms 75:8
21For what is it to him what befalleth his house after him: and if the number of his months be diminished by one half?
Job 14:5, Job 14:5, Luke 16:27, Luke 16:28, Psalms 55:23
22Shall any one teach God knowledge, who judgeth those that are high?
Romans 11:34, Romans 11:34, 1 Corinthians 2:16, 1 Corinthians 2:16, Isaiah 40:13
23One man dieth strong, and hale, rich and happy.
Luke 12:19, Luke 12:21, Luke 12:19, Luke 12:21, Psalms 73:4
24His bowels are full of fat, and his bones are moistened with marrow.
Proverbs 3:8, Proverbs 3:8, Job 15:27, Psalms 17:10, Job 15:27
25But another dieth in bitterness of soul without any riches:
Ezekiel 4:16, Ezekiel 4:17, Ezekiel 4:16, Ezekiel 4:17, Job 7:11
26And yet they shall sleep together in the dust, and worms shall cover them.
Ecclesiastes 9:2, Isaiah 14:11, Ecclesiastes 9:2, Isaiah 14:11, Job 20:11
27Surely I know your thoughts, and your unjust judgments against me.
Luke 5:22, Luke 5:22, Psalms 119:86, Psalms 119:86, Job 42:7
28For you say: Where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked?
Job 8:22, Job 20:7, Job 8:22, Job 20:7, Psalms 37:36
29Ask any one of them that go by the way, and you shall perceive that he knoweth these same things.
Psalms 129:8, Psalms 129:8
30Because the wicked man is reserved to the day of destruction, and he shall be brought to the day of wrath.
Proverbs 16:4, Proverbs 16:4, 2 Peter 2:9, 2 Peter 2:17, 2 Peter 2:9
31Who shall reprove his way to his face? and who shall repay him what he hath done?
Deuteronomy 7:10, Deuteronomy 7:10, Galatians 2:11, Galatians 2:11, Job 41:11
32He shall be brought to the graves, and shall watch in the heap of the dead.
Luke 16:22, Luke 16:22, Psalms 49:14, Ezekiel 32:21, Ezekiel 32:32
33He hath been acceptable to the gravel of Cocytus, and he shall draw every man after him, and there are innumerable before him.
Hebrews 9:27, Job 30:23, Hebrews 9:27, Job 30:23, Job 24:24
34How then do ye comfort me in vain, whereas your answer is shewn to be repugnant to truth?
Job 16:2, Job 16:2, Job 32:3, Job 32:3, Job 13:4

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