21:1 Then
Job
answered
and
said:
21:2 "Keep
listening
to
my
words,
and
let
this
be
your
comfort.
21:3 Bear
with
me,
and
I
will
speak,
and
after
I
have
spoken,
mock
on.
21:4 As
for
me,
is
my
complaint
against
man
Why
should
I
not
be
impatient
21:5 Look
at
me
and
be
appalled,
and
lay
your
hand
over
your
mouth.
21:6 When
I
remember,
I
am
dismayed,
and
shuddering
seizes
my
flesh.
21:7 Why
do
the
wicked
live,
reach
old
age,
and
grow
mighty
in
power
21:8 Their
offspring
are
established
in
their
presence,
and
their
descendants
before
their
eyes.
21:9 Their
houses
are
safe
from
fear,
and
no
rod
of
God
is
upon
them.
21:10 Their
bull
breeds
without
fail;
their
cow
calves
and
does
not
miscarry.
21:11 They
send
out
their
little
boys
like
a
flock,
and
their
children
dance.
21:12 They
sing
to
the
tambourine
and
the
lyre
and
rejoice
to
the
sound
of
the
pipe.
21:13 They
spend
their
days
in
prosperity,
and
in
peace
they
go
down
to
Sheol.
21:14 They
say
to
God,
'Depart
from
us!
We
do
not
desire
the
knowledge
of
your
ways.
21:15 What
is
the
Almighty,
that
we
should
serve
him
And
what
profit
do
we
get
if
we
pray
to
him'
21:16 Behold,
is
not
their
prosperity
in
their
hand
The
counsel
of
the
wicked
is
far
from
me.
21:17 "How
often
is
it
that
the
lamp
of
the
wicked
is
put
out
That
their
calamity
comes
upon
them
That
God
distributes
pains
in
his
anger
21:18 That
they
are
like
straw
before
the
wind,
and
like
chaff
that
the
storm
carries
away
21:19 You
say,
'God
stores
up
their
iniquity
for
their
children.'
Let
him
pay
it
out
to
them,
that
they
may
know
it.
21:20 Let
their
own
eyes
see
their
destruction,
and
let
them
drink
of
the
wrath
of
the
Almighty.
21:21 For
what
do
they
care
for
their
houses
after
them,
when
the
number
of
their
months
is
cut
off
21:22 Will
any
teach
God
knowledge,
seeing
that
he
judges
those
who
are
on
high
21:23 One
dies
in
his
full
vigor,
being
wholly
at
ease
and
secure,
21:24 his
pails
full
of
milk
and
the
marrow
of
his
bones
moist.
21:25 Another
dies
in
bitterness
of
soul,
never
having
tasted
of
prosperity.
21:26 They
lie
down
alike
in
the
dust,
and
the
worms
cover
them.
21:27 "Behold,
I
know
your
thoughts
and
your
schemes
to
wrong
me.
21:28 For
you
say,
'Where
is
the
house
of
the
prince
Where
is
the
tent
in
which
the
wicked
lived'
21:29 Have
you
not
asked
those
who
travel
the
roads,
and
do
you
not
accept
their
testimony
21:30 that
the
evil
man
is
spared
in
the
day
of
calamity,
that
he
is
rescued
in
the
day
of
wrath
21:31 Who
declares
his
way
to
his
face,
and
who
repays
him
for
what
he
has
done
21:32 When
he
is
carried
to
the
grave,
watch
is
kept
over
his
tomb.
21:33 The
clods
of
the
valley
are
sweet
to
him;
all
mankind
follows
after
him,
and
those
who
go
before
him
are
innumerable.
21:34 How
then
will
you
comfort
me
with
empty
nothings
There
is
nothing
left
of
your
answers
but
falsehood."
