Job:21

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* Bvt Iob answered , and sayd , * Hear diligently my speech , and let this (note :)Your diligent marking of my words will be to me a great consolation .(:note ) be your consolations . * Suffer mee , that I may speake , and when I haue spoken , mocke on . * As for me , [is ] my complaint to man ? and if [it (note :)As though he would say , I do not talk with man but with God , who will not answer me , and therefore my mind must be troubled .(:note ) were so ], why should not my spirit be troubled ? * Mark me , and be astonished , and lay [your ] hand upon [your ] (note :)He charges them as though they were not able to comprehend his feeling of God 's judgment , and exhorts them therefore to silence .(:note ) mouth . * Euen when I remember , I am afrayde , and feare taketh hold on my flesh . * Wherefore do the wicked (note :)Job proves against his adversaries that God does not punish the wicked immediately , but often gives them long life and prosperity , so we must not judge God just or unjust by the things that appear to our eyes .(:note ) live , become old , yea , are mighty in power ? * Their seede is established in their sight with them , and their generation before their eyes . * Their houses are peaceable without feare , and the rod of God is not vpon them . * Their bullocke gendreth , and fayleth not : their cow calueth , and casteth not her calfe . * They send forth their little ones (note :)They have healthy children and in those points he answers to that which Zophar alleged before .(:note ) like a flock , and their children dance . * They take the tabret &amp ; harpe , and reioyce in the sound of the organs . * They spend their days in wealth , and in a moment (note :)Not being tormented with long sickness .(:note ) go down to the grave . * Therefore they say unto God , Depart from us ; for we desire not the (note :)They desire nothing more than to be exempt from all subjection that they should bear to God , thus Job shows his adversaries , that if they reason only by that which is seen by common experience the wicked who hate God are better dealt withal than they who love him .(:note ) knowledge of thy ways . * Who is the Almightie , that we should serue him ? and what profit should we haue , if we should pray vnto him ? * Lo , their good [is ] not in their (note :)It is not their own , but God only lends it to them .(:note ) hand : the counsel of the wicked God keep me from their prosperity . is far from me . * How oft shal the candle of the wicked be put out ? and their destruction come vpon them ? he wil deuide their liues in his wrath . * They shall be as stubble before the winde , and as chaffe that the storme carieth away . * God wil lay vp the sorowe of the father for his children : when he rewardeth him , hee shall knowe it . * * For what pleasure hath he in his house after him , when the nomber of his moneths is cut off ? * Shall [any ] teach (note :)Who sends to the wicked prosperity and punishes the godly .(:note ) God knowledge ? seeing he judgeth those that are high . * One (note :)Meaning , the wicked .(:note ) dieth in his full strength , being wholly at ease and quiet . * His breasts are full of milke , and his bones runne full of marowe . * And another (note :)That is , the godly .(:note ) dieth in the bitterness of his soul , and never eateth with pleasure . * They shall lie down alike in (note :)As concerning their bodies : and this he speaks according to the common judgment .(:note ) the dust , and the worms shall cover them . * Behold , I know your thoughts , and the enterprises , wherewith ye do me wrong . * For ye say , Where [is ] the (note :)Thus they called Job 's house in derision concluding that it was destroyed because he was wicked .(:note ) house of the prince ? and where [are ] the dwelling places of the wicked ? * Have ye (note :)Who through long travailing have experience and tokens of it , that is , that the wicked prosper , and the godly live in affliction .(:note ) not asked them that go by the way ? and do ye not know their tokens , * That the wicked is reserved to the day of (note :)Though the wicked flourish here , yet God will punish him in the last day .(:note ) destruction ? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath . * Who shall declare his way (note :)Though men flatter him , and no one dares to reprove him in this world , yet death is a token that he will bring him to an account .(:note ) to his face ? and who shall repay him [what ] he hath done ? * Yet shal he be brought to the graue , &amp ; remaine in the heape . * The (note :)He will be glad to lie in a slimy pit , who before could not be content with a royal palace .(:note ) clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him , and every man shall draw after him , as [there are ] innumerable before him . * How then comfort (note :)Saying that the just in this world have prosperity and the wicked adversity .(:note ) ye me in vain , seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood ?

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