1Then Job answered,

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2"Listen diligently to my speech. Let this be your consolation.

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Hebrews 2:1, Hebrews 2:1, Job 18:2, Judges 9:7, Job 13:3

3Allow me, and I also will speak; After I have spoken, mock on.

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Job 17:2, Job 16:10, Job 17:2, Job 16:10, Job 16:20

4As for me, is my complaint to man? Why shouldn't I be impatient?

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Psalms 42:11, Psalms 42:11, Job 6:11, 1 Samuel 1:16, Psalms 77:3

5Look at me, and be astonished. Lay your hand on your mouth.

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Job 40:4, Judges 18:19, Job 29:9, Job 40:4, Judges 18:19

6When I remember, I am troubled. Horror takes hold of my flesh.

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Habakkuk 3:16, Lamentations 3:19, Lamentations 3:20, Psalms 119:120, Psalms 77:3

7"Why do the wicked live, become old, yes, and grow mighty in power?

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Psalms 73:3, Psalms 73:12, Psalms 73:3, Psalms 73:12, Job 12:6

8Their child is established with them in their sight, their offspring before their eyes.

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Proverbs 17:6, Proverbs 17:6, Job 5:3, Job 5:4, Job 20:28

9Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them.

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Job 9:34, Psalms 73:5, Job 9:34, Psalms 73:5, Job 15:21

10Their bulls breed without fail. Their cows calve, and do not miscarry.

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Exodus 23:26, Exodus 23:26, Deuteronomy 7:13, Deuteronomy 7:14, Luke 12:16

11They send forth their little ones like a flock. Their children dance.

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Psalms 107:41, Psalms 127:3, Psalms 127:5, Psalms 107:41, Psalms 127:3

12They sing to the tambourine and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the pipe.

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Isaiah 5:12, Genesis 4:21, Amos 6:4, Amos 6:6, Isaiah 5:12

13They spend their days in prosperity. In an instant they go down to Sheol.

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Job 36:11, Job 36:11, Luke 17:28, Luke 17:29, Matthew 24:38

14They tell God, 'Depart from us, for we do not want to know about your ways.

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Job 22:17, Job 22:17, Romans 8:7, Romans 8:7, 2 Thessalonians 2:10

15What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What profit should we have, if we pray to him?'

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Exodus 5:2, Exodus 5:2, Job 34:9, Job 34:9, Malachi 1:13

16Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand. The counsel of the wicked is far from me.

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Job 22:18, Job 22:18, Psalms 1:1, Psalms 1:1, Psalms 52:5

17"How often is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out, that their calamity comes on them, that God distributes sorrows in his anger?

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Job 18:5, Job 18:6, Job 18:5, Job 18:6, Luke 12:46

18How often is it that they are as stubble before the wind, as chaff that the storm carries away?

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Psalms 1:4, Psalms 1:4, Psalms 35:5, Job 13:25, Psalms 83:13

19You say, 'God lays up his iniquity for his children.' Let him recompense it to himself, that he may know it.

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Exodus 20:5, Exodus 20:5, Ezekiel 18:19, Ezekiel 18:20, Ezekiel 18:19

20Let his own eyes see his destruction. Let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.

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Isaiah 51:17, Revelation 14:10, Isaiah 51:17, Revelation 14:10, Psalms 75:8

21For what does he care for his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off?

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Job 14:5, Job 14:5, Luke 16:27, Luke 16:28, Psalms 55:23

22"Shall any teach God knowledge, seeing he judges those who are high?

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Romans 11:34, Romans 11:34, 1 Corinthians 2:16, 1 Corinthians 2:16, Isaiah 40:13

23One dies in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.

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Luke 12:19, Luke 12:21, Luke 12:19, Luke 12:21, Psalms 73:4

24His pails are full of milk. The marrow of his bones is moistened.

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Proverbs 3:8, Proverbs 3:8, Job 15:27, Psalms 17:10, Job 15:27

25Another dies in bitterness of soul, and never tastes of good.

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Ezekiel 4:16, Ezekiel 4:17, Ezekiel 4:16, Ezekiel 4:17, Job 7:11

26They lie down alike in the dust. The worm covers them.

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Ecclesiastes 9:2, Isaiah 14:11, Ecclesiastes 9:2, Isaiah 14:11, Job 20:11

27"Behold, I know your thoughts, the devices with which you would wrong me.

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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? Where is the tent in which the wicked lived?'

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Job 8:22, Job 20:7, Job 8:22, Job 20:7, Psalms 37:36

29Haven't you asked wayfaring men? Do you not know their evidences,

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Psalms 129:8, Psalms 129:8

30that the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity, That they are led forth to the day of wrath?

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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? Who shall repay him what he has done?

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Deuteronomy 7:10, Deuteronomy 7:10, Galatians 2:11, Galatians 2:11, Job 41:11

32Yet he will be borne to the grave. Men shall keep watch over the tomb.

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Luke 16:22, Luke 16:22, Psalms 49:14, Ezekiel 32:21, Ezekiel 32:32

33The clods of the valley shall be sweet to him. All men shall draw after him, as there were innumerable before him.

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Hebrews 9:27, Job 30:23, Hebrews 9:27, Job 30:23, Job 24:24

34So how can you comfort me with nonsense, seeing that in your answers there remains only falsehood?"

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Job 16:2, Job 16:2, Job 32:3, Job 32:3, Job 13:4