Job 21 — GNV
21Verse 1Bvt Iob answered, and sayd,Verse 2Heare diligently my wordes, and this shalbe in stead of your consolations.Verse 3Suffer mee, that I may speake, and when I haue spoken, mocke on.Verse 4Doe I direct my talke to man? If it were so, how should not my spirit be troubled?Verse 5Marke mee, and be abashed, and lay your hand vpon your mouth.Verse 6Euen when I remember, I am afrayde, and feare taketh hold on my flesh.Verse 7Wherefore do the wicked liue, and waxe olde, and grow in wealth?Verse 8Their seede is established in their sight with them, and their generation before their eyes.Verse 9Their houses are peaceable without feare, and the rod of God is not vpon them.Verse 10Their bullocke gendreth, and fayleth not: their cow calueth, and casteth not her calfe.Verse 11They send forth their children like sheepe, and their sonnes dance.Verse 12They take the tabret and harpe, and reioyce in the sound of the organs.Verse 13They spend their dayes in wealth, and suddenly they go downe to the graue.Verse 14They say also vnto God, Depart from vs: for we desire not the knowledge of thy wayes.Verse 15Who is the Almightie, that we should serue him? and what profit should we haue, if we should pray vnto him?Verse 16Lo, their wealth is not in their hand: therfore let the counsell of the wicked bee farre from me.Verse 17How oft shall the candle of the wicked be put out? and their destruction come vpon them? he wil deuide their liues in his wrath.Verse 18They shall be as stubble before the winde, and as chaffe that the storme carieth away.Verse 19God wil lay vp the sorowe of the father for his children: when he rewardeth him, hee shall knowe it.Verse 20His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drinke of the wrath of the Almightie.Verse 21For what pleasure hath he in his house after him, when the nomber of his moneths is cut off?Verse 22Shall any teache God knowledge, who iudgeth the highest things?Verse 23One dyeth in his full strength, being in all ease and prosperitie.Verse 24His breasts are full of milke, and his bones runne full of marowe.Verse 25And another dieth in the bitternes of his soule, and neuer eateth with pleasure.Verse 26They shall sleepe both in the dust, and the wormes shall couer them.Verse 27Behold, I know your thoughts, and the enterprises, wherewith ye do me wrong.Verse 28For ye say, Where is the princes house? and where is the tabernacle of the wickeds dwelling?Verse 29May ye not aske the that go by the way? and ye can not deny their signes.Verse 30But the wicked is kept vnto the day of destruction, and they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.Verse 31Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall reward him for that he hath done?Verse 32Yet shall he be brought to the graue, and remaine in the heape.Verse 33The slimie valley shalbe sweete vnto him, and euery man shall draw after him, as before him there were innumerable.Verse 34How then comfort ye me in vaine, seeing in your answeres there remaine but lyes?