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