Job 21
Authorized King James Version (1769) with AI Commentary
1But Job answered and said,🔗🔍
2Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations.🔗🔍
3Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on.🔗🔍
4As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled?🔗🔍
5Mark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth.🔗🔍
6Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh.🔗🔍
7Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?🔗🔍
8Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes.🔗🔍
9Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them.🔗🔍
10Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf.🔗🔍
11They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.🔗🔍
12They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ.🔗🔍
13They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.🔗🔍
14Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.🔗🔍
15What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?🔗🔍
16Lo, their good is not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me.🔗🔍
17How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and how oft cometh their destruction upon them! God distributeth sorrows in his anger.🔗🔍
18They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.🔗🔍
19God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know it.🔗🔍
20His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty.🔗🔍
21For what pleasure hath he in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off in the midst?🔗🔍
22Shall any teach God knowledge? seeing he judgeth those that are high.🔗🔍
23One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.🔗🔍
24His breasts are full of milk, and his bones are moistened with marrow.🔗🔍
25And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never eateth with pleasure.🔗🔍
26They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them.🔗🔍
27Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me.🔗🔍
28For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked?🔗🔍
29Have ye not asked them that go by the way? and do ye not know their tokens,🔗🔍
30That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.🔗🔍
31Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him what he hath done?🔗🔍
32Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb.🔗🔍
33The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, and every man shall draw after him, as there are innumerable before him.🔗🔍
34How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood?🔗🔍
2Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations.🔗🔍
3Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on.🔗🔍
4As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled?🔗🔍
5Mark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth.🔗🔍
6Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh.🔗🔍
7Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?🔗🔍
8Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes.🔗🔍
9Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them.🔗🔍
10Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf.🔗🔍
11They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.🔗🔍
12They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ.🔗🔍
13They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.🔗🔍
14Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.🔗🔍
15What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?🔗🔍
16Lo, their good is not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me.🔗🔍
17How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and how oft cometh their destruction upon them! God distributeth sorrows in his anger.🔗🔍
18They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.🔗🔍
19God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know it.🔗🔍
20His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty.🔗🔍
21For what pleasure hath he in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off in the midst?🔗🔍
22Shall any teach God knowledge? seeing he judgeth those that are high.🔗🔍
23One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.🔗🔍
24His breasts are full of milk, and his bones are moistened with marrow.🔗🔍
25And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never eateth with pleasure.🔗🔍
26They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them.🔗🔍
27Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me.🔗🔍
28For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked?🔗🔍
29Have ye not asked them that go by the way? and do ye not know their tokens,🔗🔍
30That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.🔗🔍
31Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him what he hath done?🔗🔍
32Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb.🔗🔍
33The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, and every man shall draw after him, as there are innumerable before him.🔗🔍
34How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood?🔗🔍
🤖 AI Commentary
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