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Job 21 📜 📕 ↷
Job: God Will Punish the Wicked
1 BUT Job answering, said:📜💬📚
2 Hear I beseech you my words, and do penance.📜💬📚
3 Bear with me, that I also may speak, and after my words, if it shall seem good, laugh ye.📜💬📚
4 Is my disputation against man, that I ought not worthily to be sorry?📜💬📚
5 Harken to me, and be astonished, and put the finger upon your mouth.📜💬📚
6 And I, when I shall remember, am afraid, and trembling shaketh my flesh.📜💬📚
7 Why then do the impious live, are they advanced, & strengthened with riches?📜💬📚
8 Their seed continueth before them, a multitude of kinsmen, & of nephews in their sight.📜💬📚
9 Their houses be secure & peaceable, & the rod of God is not upon them.📜💬📚
10 Their bullock hath conceived, & hath not made abortion: their cow hath calved, and is not deprived of her calf.📜💬📚
11 Their little ones go forth as flocks, and their infants rejoice with pastimes.📜💬📚
12 They hold the timbrel, & the harp, & rejoice at the sound of the organ.📜💬📚
13 They lead their days in wealth, and in a moment they go down to hell.📜💬📚
14 Who said to God: depart from us, we will not the knowledge of thy ways.📜💬📚
15 Who is the Omnipotent, that we should serve him? And what doth it profit us if we shall pray him?📜💬📚
16 But yet because their good things are not in their hand, be the counsel of the impious far from me.📜💬📚
17 How often shall the candle of the impious be extinguished, and inundation come upon them, and shall he divide the sorrows of his fury?📜💬📚
18 They shall be as chaff before the face of the wind, and as ashes, which the whirlwind scattereth.📜💬📚
19 God shall reserve the sorrow of the father to his children: and when he shall have rendered it, then shall he know.📜💬📚
20 His eyes shall see his own slaughter, and he shall drink the fury of the Omnipotent.📜💬📚
21 For what doeth it pertain to him concerning his house after him: although the number of his months be diminished the half?📜💬📚
22 Shall any man teach God knowledge, who judgeth the high ones?📜💬📚
23 This man dieth strong and in health, rich and happy.📜💬📚
24 His bowels be full of fat, and his bones be embrued with marrow.📜💬📚
25 But an other dieth in bitterness of soul without any riches:📜💬📚
26 And yet they shall sleep together in the dust, and worms shall cover them.📜💬📚
27 Surely I know your cogitations, & unjust sentences against me.📜💬📚
28 For you say: Where is the house of the Prince? & where are the tabernacles of the impious?📜💬📚
29 Ask any of the wayfaring men, & you shall understand that he knoweth these self-same things.📜💬📚
30 Because the evil man is kept unto the day of perdition, and he shall be led to the day of fury.📜💬📚
31 Who shall reprove his way before him? And who shall repay him the things that he hath done?📜💬📚
32 He shall be brought to the graves, and shall watch in the head of the dead.📜💬📚
33 He hath been sweet to the gravel of Cocytus, and after him he shall draw every man, and before him innumerable.📜💬📚
34 How therefore do ye comfort me in vain, whereas your answer is shewed to be repugnant to the truth?📜💬📚
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