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World English Bible

Job 21 (WEBP)

[1] Then Job answered,
[2] “Listen diligently to my speech. Let this be your consolation.
[3] Allow me, and I also will speak. After I have spoken, mock on.
[4] As for me, is my complaint to man? Why shouldn’t I be impatient?
[5] Look at me, and be astonished. Lay your hand on your mouth.
[6] When I remember, I am troubled. Horror takes hold of my flesh.
[7] “Why do the wicked live, become old, yes, and grow mighty in power?
[8] Their child is established with them in their sight, their offspring before their eyes.
[9] Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them.
[10] Their bulls breed without fail. Their cows calve, and don’t miscarry.
[11] They send out their little ones like a flock. Their children dance.
[12] They sing to the tambourine and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the pipe.
[13] They spend their days in prosperity. In an instant they go down to Sheol.
[14] They tell God, ‘Depart from us, for we don’t want to know about your ways.
[15] What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What profit should we have, if we pray to him?’
[16] Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand. The counsel of the wicked is far from me.
[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?
[18] How often is it that they are as stubble before the wind, as chaff that the storm carries away?
[19] You say, ‘God lays up his iniquity for his children.’ Let him recompense it to himself, that he may know it.
[20] Let his own eyes see his destruction. Let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
[21] For what does he care for his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off?
[22] “Shall any teach God knowledge, since he judges those who are high?
[23] One dies in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.
[24] His pails are full of milk. The marrow of his bones is moistened.
[25] Another dies in bitterness of soul, and never tastes of good.
[26] They lie down alike in the dust. The worm covers them.
[27] “Behold, I know your thoughts, the plans with which you would wrong me.
[28] For you say, ‘Where is the house of the prince? Where is the tent in which the wicked lived?’
[29] Haven’t you asked wayfaring men? Don’t you know their evidences,
[30] that the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity, that they are led out to the day of wrath?
[31] Who will declare his way to his face? Who will repay him what he has done?
[32] Yet he will be borne to the grave. Men will keep watch over the tomb.
[33] The clods of the valley will be sweet to him. All men will draw after him, as there were innumerable before him.
[34] So how can you comfort me with nonsense, because in your answers there remains only falsehood?”

Job 21:13 Sheol is the place of the dead.

Scripture quotations are taken from The World English Bible™ of eBible.org, 2020 stable text edition. It is in the public domain.

King James w/Strong’s #s

Job 21 (KJVS)

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

Job 21:4 Heb. shortened
Job 21:5 Heb. Look unto me
Job 21:9 Heb. are peace from fear
Job 21:13 Or, in mirth
Job 21:17 Or, lamp
Job 21:18 Heb. stealeth away
Job 21:19 That is, the punishment of his iniquity
Job 21:23 Heb. in his very perfection, or in the strength of his perfection
Job 21:24 Or, milk pails
Job 21:28 Heb. the tent of the tabernacles of the wicked
Job 21:30 Heb. the day of wraths
Job 21:32a Heb. graves
Job 21:32b Heb. watch in the heap
Job 21:34 Heb. transgression

Scripture quotations from The Authorized King James Version of the Holy Bible, using the standardized text of 1769. It is in the public domain.

Greek Bible (LXX/BYZ)

Job 21 (BYZ)

[1] υπολαβων δε ιωβ λεγει
[2] ακουσατε ακουσατε μου των λογων ινα μη η μοι παρ υμων αυτη η παρακλησις
[3] αρατε με εγω δε λαλησω ειτ ου καταγελασετε μου
[4] τι γαρ μη ανθρωπου μου η ελεγξις η δια τι ου θυμωθησομαι
[5] εισβλεψαντες εις εμε θαυμασατε χειρα θεντες επι σιαγονι
[6] εαν τε γαρ μνησθω εσπουδακα εχουσιν δε μου τας σαρκας οδυναι
[7] δια τι ασεβεις ζωσιν πεπαλαιωνται δε και εν πλουτω
[8] ο σπορος αυτων κατα ψυχην τα δε τεκνα αυτων εν οφθαλμοις
[9] οι οικοι αυτων ευθηνουσιν φοβος δε ουδαμου μαστιξ δε παρα κυριου ουκ εστιν επ αυτοις
[10] η βους αυτων ουκ ωμοτοκησεν διεσωθη δε αυτων εν γαστρι εχουσα και ουκ εσφαλεν
[11] μενουσιν δε ως προβατα αιωνια τα δε παιδια αυτων προσπαιζουσιν
[12] αναλαβοντες ψαλτηριον και κιθαραν και ευφραινονται φωνη ψαλμου
[13] συνετελεσαν δε εν αγαθοις τον βιον αυτων εν δε αναπαυσει αδου εκοιμηθησαν
[14] λεγει δε κυριω αποστα απ εμου οδους σου ειδεναι ου βουλομαι
[15] τι ικανος οτι δουλευσομεν αυτω και τις ωφελεια οτι απαντησομεν αυτω
[16] εν χερσιν γαρ ην αυτων τα αγαθα εργα δε ασεβων ουκ εφορα
[17] ου μην δε αλλα και ασεβων λυχνος σβεσθησεται επελευσεται δε αυτοις η καταστροφη ωδινες δε αυτους εξουσιν απο οργης
[18] εσονται δε ωσπερ αχυρα προ ανεμου η ωσπερ κονιορτος ον υφειλατο λαιλαψ
[19] εκλιποι υιους τα υπαρχοντα αυτου ανταποδωσει προς αυτον και γνωσεται
[20] ιδοισαν οι οφθαλμοι αυτου την εαυτου σφαγην απο δε κυριου μη διασωθειη
[21] οτι τι θελημα αυτου εν οικω αυτου μετ αυτον και αριθμοι μηνων αυτου διηρεθησαν
[22] ποτερον ουχι ο κυριος εστιν ο διδασκων συνεσιν και επιστημην αυτος δε φονους διακρινει
[23] ουτος αποθανειται εν κρατει απλοσυνης αυτου ολος δε ευπαθων και ευθηνων
[24] τα δε εγκατα αυτου πληρη στεατος μυελος δε αυτου διαχειται
[25] ο δε τελευτα υπο πικριας ψυχης ου φαγων ουδεν αγαθον
[26] ομοθυμαδον δε επι γης κοιμωνται σαπρια δε αυτους εκαλυψεν
[27] ωστε οιδα υμας οτι τολμη επικεισθε μοι
[28] οτι ερειτε που εστιν οικος αρχοντος και που εστιν η σκεπη των σκηνωματων των ασεβων
[29] ερωτησατε παραπορευομενους οδον και τα σημεια αυτων ουκ απαλλοτριωσετε
[30] οτι εις ημεραν απωλειας κουφιζεται ο πονηρος εις ημεραν οργης αυτου απαχθησονται
[31] τις απαγγελει επι προσωπου αυτου την οδον αυτου και αυτος εποιησεν τις ανταποδωσει αυτω
[32] και αυτος εις ταφους απηνεχθη και επι σορω ηγρυπνησεν
[33] εγλυκανθησαν αυτω χαλικες χειμαρρου και οπισω αυτου πας ανθρωπος απελευσεται και εμπροσθεν αυτου αναριθμητοι
[34] πως δε παρακαλειτε με κενα το δε εμε καταπαυσασθαι αφ υμων ουδεν