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Job Chapter 21

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Job 21

1Bvt Iob answered, and sayd,
2Heare diligently my wordes, and this shalbe in stead of your consolations.
Hebrews 2:1, Hebrews 2:1, Job 18:2, Judges 9:7, Job 13:3
3Suffer mee, that I may speake, and when I haue spoken, mocke on.
Job 17:2, Job 16:10, Job 17:2, Job 16:10, Job 16:20
4Doe I direct my talke to man? If it were so, how should not my spirit be troubled?
Psalms 42:11, Psalms 42:11, Job 6:11, 1 Samuel 1:16, Psalms 77:3
5Marke mee, and be abashed, and lay your hand vpon your mouth.
Job 40:4, Judges 18:19, Job 29:9, Job 40:4, Judges 18:19
6Euen when I remember, I am afrayde, and feare taketh hold on my flesh.
Habakkuk 3:16, Lamentations 3:19, Lamentations 3:20, Psalms 119:120, Psalms 77:3
7Wherefore do the wicked liue, and waxe olde, and grow in wealth?
Psalms 73:3, Psalms 73:12, Psalms 73:3, Psalms 73:12, Job 12:6
8Their seede is established in their sight with them, and their generation before their eyes.
Proverbs 17:6, Proverbs 17:6, Job 5:3, Job 5:4, Job 20:28
9Their houses are peaceable without feare, and the rod of God is not vpon them.
Job 9:34, Psalms 73:5, Job 9:34, Psalms 73:5, Job 15:21
10Their bullocke gendreth, and fayleth not: their cow calueth, and casteth not her calfe.
Exodus 23:26, Exodus 23:26, Deuteronomy 7:13, Deuteronomy 7:14, Luke 12:16
11They send forth their children like sheepe, and their sonnes dance.
Psalms 107:41, Psalms 127:3, Psalms 127:5, Psalms 107:41, Psalms 127:3
12They take the tabret and harpe, and reioyce in the sound of the organs.
Isaiah 5:12, Genesis 4:21, Amos 6:4, Amos 6:6, Isaiah 5:12
13They spend their dayes in wealth, and suddenly they go downe to the graue.
Job 36:11, Job 36:11, Luke 17:28, Luke 17:29, Matthew 24:38
14They say also vnto God, Depart from vs: for we desire not the knowledge of thy wayes.
Job 22:17, Job 22:17, Romans 8:7, Romans 8:7, 2 Thessalonians 2:10
15Who is the Almightie, that we should serue him? and what profit should we haue, if we should pray vnto him?
Exodus 5:2, Exodus 5:2, Job 34:9, Job 34:9, Malachi 1:13
16Lo, their wealth is not in their hand: therfore let the counsell of the wicked bee farre from me.
Job 22:18, Job 22:18, Psalms 1:1, Psalms 1:1, Psalms 52:5
17How oft shall the candle of the wicked be put out? and their destruction come vpon them? he wil deuide their liues in his wrath.
Job 18:5, Job 18:6, Job 18:5, Job 18:6, Luke 12:46
18They shall be as stubble before the winde, and as chaffe that the storme carieth away.
Psalms 1:4, Psalms 1:4, Psalms 35:5, Job 13:25, Psalms 83:13
19God wil lay vp the sorowe of the father for his children: when he rewardeth him, hee shall knowe it.
Exodus 20:5, Exodus 20:5, Ezekiel 18:19, Ezekiel 18:20, Ezekiel 18:19
20His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drinke of the wrath of the Almightie.
Isaiah 51:17, Revelation 14:10, Isaiah 51:17, Revelation 14:10, Psalms 75:8
21For what pleasure hath he in his house after him, when the nomber of his moneths is cut off?
Job 14:5, Job 14:5, Luke 16:27, Luke 16:28, Psalms 55:23
22Shall any teache God knowledge, who iudgeth the highest things?
Romans 11:34, Romans 11:34, 1 Corinthians 2:16, 1 Corinthians 2:16, Isaiah 40:13
23One dyeth in his full strength, being in all ease and prosperitie.
Luke 12:19, Luke 12:21, Luke 12:19, Luke 12:21, Psalms 73:4
24His breasts are full of milke, and his bones runne full of marowe.
Proverbs 3:8, Proverbs 3:8, Job 15:27, Psalms 17:10, Job 15:27
25And another dieth in the bitternes of his soule, and neuer eateth with pleasure.
Ezekiel 4:16, Ezekiel 4:17, Ezekiel 4:16, Ezekiel 4:17, Job 7:11
26They shall sleepe both in the dust, and the wormes shall couer them.
Ecclesiastes 9:2, Isaiah 14:11, Ecclesiastes 9:2, Isaiah 14:11, Job 20:11
27Behold, I know your thoughts, and the enterprises, wherewith ye do me wrong.
Luke 5:22, Luke 5:22, Psalms 119:86, Psalms 119:86, Job 42:7
28For ye say, Where is the princes house? and where is the tabernacle of the wickeds dwelling?
Job 8:22, Job 20:7, Job 8:22, Job 20:7, Psalms 37:36
29May ye not aske the that go by the way? and ye can not deny their signes.
Psalms 129:8, Psalms 129:8
30But the wicked is kept vnto the day of destruction, and they shall be brought forth 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 declare his way to his face? and who shall reward him for that he hath done?
Deuteronomy 7:10, Deuteronomy 7:10, Galatians 2:11, Galatians 2:11, Job 41:11
32Yet shall he be brought to the graue, and remaine in the heape.
Luke 16:22, Luke 16:22, Psalms 49:14, Ezekiel 32:21, Ezekiel 32:32
33The slimie valley shalbe sweete vnto him, and euery man shall draw after him, as before him there were innumerable.
Hebrews 9:27, Job 30:23, Hebrews 9:27, Job 30:23, Job 24:24
34How then comfort ye me in vaine, seeing in your answeres there remaine but lyes?
Job 16:2, Job 16:2, Job 32:3, Job 32:3, Job 13:4

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