noyes - 21

noyes@Job:21:1 @ But Job answered and said:

noyes@Job:21:2 @ Hear attentively my words, And let this be your consolation.

noyes@Job:21:3 @ Bear with me, that I may speak; And after I have spoken, mock on!

noyes@Job:21:4 @ Is my complaint concerning man? Why then should I not be angry?

noyes@Job:21:5 @ Look upon me, and be astonished, And lay your hand upon your mouth!

noyes@Job:21:6 @ When I think of it, I am confounded; Trembling taketh hold of my flesh.

noyes@Job:21:7 @ Why is it that the wicked live, Grow old, yea, become mighty in substance?

noyes@Job:21:8 @ Their children are established in their sight with them, And their offspring before their eyes.

noyes@Job:21:9 @ Their houses are in peace, without fear, And the rod of God cometh not upon them.

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

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

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

noyes@Job:21:13 @ They spend their days in prosperity, And in a moment go down to the underworld.

noyes@Job:21:14 @ And yet they say unto God, "Depart from us! We desire not the knowledge of thy ways!

noyes@Job:21:15 @ Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him? And what will it profit us, if we pray to him?"

noyes@Job:21:16 @ "Lo! their prosperity is not secure in their hands! Far from me be the conduct of the wicked!"

noyes@Job:21:17 @ How often is it, that the lamp of the wicked is put out? And that destruction cometh upon them, And that He dispenseth to them tribulations in his anger?

noyes@Job:21:18 @ How often are they as stubble before the wind, Or as chaff, which the whirlwind carrieth away?

noyes@Job:21:19 @ "But" "God layeth up his iniquity for his children." Let him requite the offender, and let him feel it!

noyes@Job:21:20 @ Let his own eyes see his destruction, And let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty!

noyes@Job:21:21 @ For what concern hath he for his household after him, When the number of his own months is completed?

noyes@Job:21:22 @ Who then shall impart knowledge to God,To him that judgeth the highest?

noyes@Job:21:23 @ One dieth in the fulness of his prosperity, Being wholly at ease and quiet;

noyes@Job:21:24 @ His sides are full of fat, And his bones moist with marrow.

noyes@Job:21:25 @ Another dieth in bitterness of soul, And hath not tasted pleasure.

noyes@Job:21:26 @ Alike they lie down in the dust, And the worms cover them.

noyes@Job:21:27 @ Behold, I know your thoughts, And the devices by which ye wrong me.

noyes@Job:21:28 @ For ye say, "Where is the house of the oppressor, And where the dwellingplaces of the wicked?"

noyes@Job:21:29 @ Have ye never inquired of travellers, And do ye not know their tokens,

noyes@Job:21:30 @ That the wicked is spared in the day of destruction, And that he is borne to his grave in the day of wrath?

noyes@Job:21:31 @ Who will charge him with his conduct to his face, And who will requite him for the evil he hath done?

noyes@Job:21:32 @ Even this man is borne with honor to the grave; Yea, he watcheth over his tomb.

noyes@Job:21:33 @ Sweet to him are the sods of the valley: And all men move after him, As multitudes without number before him.

noyes@Job:21:34 @ Why then do ye offer your vain consolations? Your answers continue false.

Job 21