rsv - 21

rsv@Job:21:1 @ Then Job answered:

rsv@Job:21:2 @ "Listen carefully to my words, and let this be your consolation.

rsv@Job:21:3 @ Bear with me, and I will speak, and after I have spoken, mock on.

rsv@Job:21:4 @ As for me, is my complaint against man? Why should I not be impatient?

rsv@Job:21:5 @ Look at me, and be appalled, and lay your hand upon your mouth.

rsv@Job:21:6 @ When I think of it I am dismayed, and shuddering seizes my flesh.

rsv@Job:21:7 @ Why do the wicked live, reach old age, and grow mighty in power?

rsv@Job:21:8 @ Their children are established in their presence, and their offspring before their eyes.

rsv@Job:21:9 @ Their houses are safe from fear, and no rod of God is upon them.

rsv@Job:21:10 @ Their bull breeds without fail; their cow calves, and does not cast her calf.

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

rsv@Job:21:12 @ They sing to the tambourine and the lyre, and rejoice to the sound of the pipe.

rsv@Job:21:13 @ They spend their days in prosperity, and in peace they go down to Sheol.

rsv@Job:21:14 @ They say to God, `ey say to God, "Depart from us! We do not desire the knowledge of thy ways.

rsv@Job:21:15 @ What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? And what profit do we get if we pray to him?'

rsv@Job:21:16 @ Behold, is not their prosperity in their hand? The counsel of the wicked is far from me.

rsv@Job: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?

rsv@Job:21:18 @ That they are like straw before the wind, and like chaff that the storm carries away?

rsv@Job:21:19 @ You say, `God stores up their iniquity for their sons.' Let him recompense it to themselves, that they may know it.

rsv@Job:21:20 @ Let their own eyes see their destruction, and let them drink of the wrath of the Almighty.

rsv@Job:21:21 @ For what do they care for their houses after them, when the number of their months is cut off?

rsv@Job:21:22 @ Will any teach God knowledge, seeing that he judges those that are on high?

rsv@Job:21:23 @ One dies in full prosperity, being wholly at ease and secure,

rsv@Job:21:24 @ his body full of fat and the marrow of his bones moist.

rsv@Job:21:25 @ Another dies in bitterness of soul, never having tasted of good.

rsv@Job:21:26 @ They lie down alike in the dust, and the worms cover them.

rsv@Job:21:27 @ "Behold, I know your thoughts, and your schemes to wrong me.

rsv@Job:21:28 @ For you say, `r you say, "Where is the house of the prince? Where is the tent in which the wicked dwelt?'

rsv@Job:21:29 @ Have you not asked those who travel the roads, and do you not accept their testimony

rsv@Job:21:30 @ that the wicked man is spared in the day of calamity, that he is rescued in the day of wrath?

rsv@Job:21:31 @ Who declares his way to his face, and who requites him for what he has done?

rsv@Job:21:32 @ When he is borne to the grave, watch is kept over his tomb.

rsv@Job:21:33 @ The clods of the valley are sweet to him; all men follow after him, and those who go before him are innumerable.

rsv@Job:21:34 @ How then will you comfort me with empty nothings? There is nothing left of your answers but falsehood."

Job 21