Job 21 · Clearspring

Job: God Will Punish the Wicked

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

Job: God Will Punish the Wicked

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