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Job 21:4-18
1599 Geneva Bible
Job 21:4-18
1599 Geneva Bible
4 Do I direct my talk to man? If it [a]were so, how should not my spirit be troubled?
5 Mark me, and be abashed, and lay your hand upon your [b]mouth.
6 Even when I remember, I am afraid, and fear taketh hold on my flesh.
7 Wherefore do the wicked [c]live, and wax old, and grow in wealth?
8 Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their generation before their eyes.
9 Their houses are peaceable without fear, and the rod of God is not upon them.
10 Their bullock gendereth, and faileth not: their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf.
11 They send forth their children [d]like sheep, and their sons dance.
12 They take the tambourine and harp, and rejoice in the sound of the organs.
13 They spend their days in wealth, and suddenly [e]they go down to the grave.
14 They say also unto God, Depart from us: for we desire not the [f]knowledge of thy ways.
15 Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we should pray unto him?
16 Lo, their wealth is not in their [g]hand: therefore let the counsel of the wicked [h]be far from me.
17 How oft shall the candle of the wicked be put out and their destruction come upon them? he will divide their lives in his wrath.
18 They shall be as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.
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- Job 21:4 As though he would say, I do not talk with man but with God, who will not answer me, and therefore my mind must needs be troubled.
- Job 21:5 He chargeth them as though they were not able to comprehend this his feeling of God’s judgment, and exhorteth them therefore to silence.
- Job 21:7 Job proveth against his adversaries that God punisheth not straightways the wicked, but oft times giveth them long life, and prosperity: so that we must not judge God just or unjust by the things that appear to our eyes.
- Job 21:11 They have store of children, lusty and healthful, and in these points he answereth to that which Zophar alleged before.
- Job 21:13 Not being tormented with long sickness.
- Job 21:14 They desire nothing more than to be exempt from all subjection that they should bear to God: thus Job showeth his adversaries, that if they reason only by that which is seen by common experience, the wicked that hate God, are better dealt withal, than they that love him.
- Job 21:16 It is not their own, but God only lendeth it unto them.
- Job 21:16 God keep me from their prosperity.
Job 21:4-18
New International Version
Job 21:4-18
New International Version
4 “Is my complaint(A) directed to a human being?
Why should I not be impatient?(B)
5 Look at me and be appalled;
clap your hand over your mouth.(C)
6 When I think about this, I am terrified;(D)
trembling seizes my body.(E)
7 Why do the wicked live on,
growing old and increasing in power?(F)
8 They see their children established around them,
their offspring before their eyes.(G)
9 Their homes are safe and free from fear;(H)
the rod of God is not on them.(I)
10 Their bulls never fail to breed;
their cows calve and do not miscarry.(J)
11 They send forth their children as a flock;(K)
their little ones dance about.
12 They sing to the music of timbrel and lyre;(L)
they make merry to the sound of the pipe.(M)
13 They spend their years in prosperity(N)
and go down to the grave(O) in peace.[a](P)
14 Yet they say to God, ‘Leave us alone!(Q)
We have no desire to know your ways.(R)
15 Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him?
What would we gain by praying to him?’(S)
16 But their prosperity is not in their own hands,
so I stand aloof from the plans of the wicked.(T)
Footnotes
- Job 21:13 Or in an instant
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