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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] Ὑπολαβὼν () δὲ () Ιωβ () λέγει ()
[2] Ἀκούσατε () ἀκούσατέ () μου () τῶν () λόγων, () ἵνα () μὴ () ᾖ () μοι () παρ’ () ὑμῶν () αὕτη () ἡ () παράκλησις. ()
[3] Ἄρατέ () με, () ἐγὼ () δὲ () λαλήσω, () εἶτ’ () οὐ () καταγελάσετέ () μου. ()
[4] Τί () γάρ; () Μὴ () ἀνθρώπου () μου () ἡ () ἔλεγξις; () Ἢ () διὰ () τί () οὐ () θυμωθήσομαι; ()
[5] Εἰσβλέψαντες εἰς () ἐμὲ () θαυμάσατε () χεῖρα () θέντες () ἐπὶ () σιαγόνι. ()
[6] Ἐάν () τε () γὰρ () μνησθῶ, () ἐσπούδακα, () ἔχουσιν () δέ () μου () τὰς () σάρκας () ὀδύναι. ()
[7] Διὰ () τί () ἀσεβεῖς () ζῶσιν, () πεπαλαίωνται () δὲ () καὶ () ἐν () πλούτῳ; ()
[8] Ὁ () σπόρος () αὐτῶν () κατὰ () ψυχήν, () τὰ () δὲ () τέκνα () αὐτῶν () ἐν () ὀφθαλμοῖς. ()
[9] Οἱ () οἶκοι () αὐτῶν () εὐθηνοῦσιν, φόβος () δὲ () οὐδαμοῦ, μάστιξ () δὲ () παρὰ () κυρίου () οὐκ () ἔστιν () ἐπ’ () αὐτοῖς. ()
[10] Ἡ () βοῦς () αὐτῶν () οὐκ () ὠμοτόκησεν, διεσώθη () δὲ () αὐτῶν () ἐν () γαστρὶ () ἔχουσα () καὶ () οὐκ () ἔσφαλεν.
[11] Μένουσιν () δὲ () ὡς () πρόβατα () αἰώνια, () τὰ () δὲ () παιδία () αὐτῶν () προσπαίζουσιν
[12] ἀναλαβόντες () ψαλτήριον καὶ () κιθάραν () καὶ () εὐφραίνονται () φωνῇ () ψαλμοῦ. ()
[13] Συνετέλεσαν () δὲ () ἐν () ἀγαθοῖς () τὸν () βίον () αὐτῶν, () ἐν () δὲ () ἀναπαύσει () ᾅδου () ἐκοιμήθησαν. ()
[14] Λέγει () δὲ () κυρίῳ () Ἀπόστα () ἀπ’ () ἐμοῦ, () ὁδούς () σου () εἰδέναι () οὐ () βούλομαι· ()
[15] τί () ἱκανός, () ὅτι () δουλεύσομεν () αὐτῷ; () Καὶ () τίς () ὠφέλεια, () ὅτι () ἀπαντήσομεν () αὐτῷ; ()
[16] Ἐν () χερσὶν () γὰρ () ἦν () αὐτῶν () τὰ () ἀγαθά, () ἔργα () δὲ () ἀσεβῶν () οὐκ () ἐφορᾷ. ()
[17] Οὐ () μὴν () δὲ () ἀλλὰ () καὶ () ἀσεβῶν () λύχνος () σβεσθήσεται, () ἐπελεύσεται () δὲ () αὐτοῖς () ἡ () καταστροφή, () ὠδῖνες () δὲ () αὐτοὺς () ἕξουσιν () ἀπὸ () ὀργῆς. ()
[18] Ἔσονται () δὲ () ὥσπερ () ἄχυρα () πρὸ () ἀνέμου () ἢ () ὥσπερ () κονιορτός, () ὃν () ὑφείλατο λαῖλαψ. ()
[19] Ἐκλίποι () υἱοὺς () τὰ () ὑπάρχοντα () αὐτοῦ· () ἀνταποδώσει () πρὸς () αὐτὸν () καὶ () γνώσεται. ()
[20] Ἴδοισαν () οἱ () ὀφθαλμοὶ () αὐτοῦ () τὴν () ἑαυτοῦ () σφαγήν, () ἀπὸ () δὲ () κυρίου () μὴ () διασωθείη· ()
[21] ὅτι () τί () θέλημα () αὐτοῦ () ἐν () οἴκῳ () αὐτοῦ () μετ’ () αὐτόν; () Καὶ () ἀριθμοὶ () μηνῶν () αὐτοῦ () διῃρέθησαν. ()
[22] Πότερον () οὐχὶ () ὁ () κύριός () ἐστιν () ὁ () διδάσκων () σύνεσιν () καὶ () ἐπιστήμην; Αὐτὸς () δὲ () φόνους () διακρινεῖ. ()
[23] Οὗτος () ἀποθανεῖται () ἐν () κράτει () ἁπλοσύνης αὐτοῦ, () ὅλος () δὲ () εὐπαθῶν καὶ () εὐθηνῶν·
[24] τὰ () δὲ () ἔγκατα αὐτοῦ () πλήρη () στέατος, μυελὸς () δὲ () αὐτοῦ () διαχεῖται.
[25] Ὁ () δὲ () τελευτᾷ () ὑπὸ () πικρίας () ψυχῆς () οὐ () φαγὼν οὐδὲν () ἀγαθόν. ()
[26] Ὁμοθυμαδὸν () δὲ () ἐπὶ () γῆς () κοιμῶνται, () σαπρία δὲ () αὐτοὺς () ἐκάλυψεν. ()
[27] Ὥστε () οἶδα () ὑμᾶς () ὅτι () τόλμῃ ἐπίκεισθέ () μοι· ()
[28] ὅτι () ἐρεῖτε () Ποῦ () ἐστιν () οἶκος () ἄρχοντος; () Καὶ () ποῦ () ἐστιν () ἡ () σκέπη τῶν () σκηνωμάτων () τῶν () ἀσεβῶν; ()
[29] Ἐρωτήσατε () παραπορευομένους () ὁδόν, () καὶ () τὰ () σημεῖα () αὐτῶν () οὐκ () ἀπαλλοτριώσετε· ()
[30] ὅτι () εἰς () ἡμέραν () ἀπωλείας () κουφίζεται () ὁ () πονηρός, () εἰς () ἡμέραν () ὀργῆς () αὐτοῦ () ἀπαχθήσονται. ()
[31] Τίς () ἀπαγγελεῖ () ἐπὶ () προσώπου () αὐτοῦ () τὴν () ὁδὸν () αὐτοῦ; () Καὶ () αὐτὸς () ἐποίησεν, () τίς () ἀνταποδώσει () αὐτῷ; ()
[32] Καὶ () αὐτὸς () εἰς () τάφους () ἀπηνέχθη () καὶ () ἐπὶ () σορῷ () ἠγρύπνησεν. ()
[33] Ἐγλυκάνθησαν αὐτῷ () χάλικες χειμάρρου, () καὶ () ὀπίσω () αὐτοῦ () πᾶς () ἄνθρωπος () ἀπελεύσεται, () καὶ () ἔμπροσθεν () αὐτοῦ () ἀναρίθμητοι. ()
[34] Πῶς () δὲ () παρακαλεῖτέ () με () κενά; () Τὸ () δὲ () ἐμὲ () καταπαύσασθαι () ἀφ’ () ὑμῶν () οὐδέν. ()

Old Testament scripture quotations and versification from Septuaginta, edited by Alfred Rahlfs (Stuttgart: Württembergische Bibelanstalt, 1935). New Testament quotations are from the Byzantine Text (Guardian Press, LLC, Robinson-Pierpont Byzantine Textform, 2026). Both are in the public domain.