jps - 21

jps@Job:21:1 @ Then Job answered and said:

jps@Job:21:2 @ Hear diligently my speech; and let this be your consolations.

jps@Job:21:3 @ Suffer me, that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on.

jps@Job:21:4 @ As for me, is my complaint to man? Or why should I not be impatient?

jps@Job:21:5 @ Turn unto me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth.

jps@Job:21:6 @ Even when I remember I am affrighted, and horror hath taketh hold on my flesh.

jps@Job:21:7 @ Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, wax mighty in power?

jps@Job:21:8 @ Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes.

jps@Job:21:9 @ Their houses are safe, without fear, neither is the rod of God upon them.

jps@Job:21:10 @ Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf.

jps@Job:21:11 @ They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.

jps@Job:21:12 @ They sing to the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the pipe.

jps@Job:21:13 @ They spend their days in prosperity, and peacefully they go down to the grave.

jps@Job:21:14 @ Yet they said unto God: 'Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of Thy ways.

jps@Job:21:15 @ What is the Almighty, that we should serve Him? And what profit should we have, if we pray unto Him?'--

jps@Job:21:16 @ Lo, their prosperity is not in their hand; the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

jps@Job:21:17 @ How oft is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out? that their calamity cometh upon them? that He distributeth pains in His anger?

jps@Job:21:18 @ That they are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm stealeth away?

jps@Job:21:19 @ 'God layeth up his iniquity for his children!'--let Him recompense it unto himself, that he may know it.

jps@Job:21:20 @ Let his own eyes see his destruction, and let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.

jps@Job:21:21 @ For what pleasure hath he in his house after him? seeing the number of his months is determined.

jps@Job:21:22 @ Shall any teach God knowledge? seeing it is He that judgeth those that are high.

jps@Job:21:23 @ One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet;

jps@Job:21:24 @ His pails are full of milk, and the marrow of his bones is moistened.

jps@Job:21:25 @ And another dieth in bitterness of soul, and hath never tasted of good.

jps@Job:21:26 @ They lie down alike in the dust, and the worm covereth them.

jps@Job:21:27 @ Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me.

jps@Job:21:28 @ For ye say: 'Where is the house of the prince? And where is the tent wherein the wicked dwelt?'

jps@Job:21:29 @ Have ye not asked them that go by the way; and will ye misdeem their tokens,

jps@Job:21:30 @ That the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity, that they are led forth to the day of wrath?

jps@Job:21:31 @ But who shall declare his way to his face? And who shall repay him what he hath done?

jps@Job:21:32 @ For he is borne to the grave, and watch is kept over his tomb.

jps@Job:21:33 @ The clods of the valley are sweet unto him, and all men draw after him, as there were innumerable before him.

jps@Job:21:34 @ How then comfort ye me in vain? And as for your answers, there remaineth only faithlessness?

Job 21