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Job 21

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Then Job answered:

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"Listen carefully to my words, and let this be your consolation.

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Bear with me, and I will speak, and after I have spoken, mock on.

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As for me, is my complaint against man? Why should I not be impatient?

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Look at me, and be appalled, and lay your hand upon your mouth.

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When I think of it I am dismayed, and shuddering seizes my flesh.

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Why do the wicked live, reach old age, and grow mighty in power?

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Their children are established in their presence, and their offspring before their eyes.

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Their houses are safe from fear, and no rod of God is upon them.

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Their bull breeds without fail; their cow calves, and does not cast her calf.

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They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.

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They sing to the tambourine and the lyre, and rejoice to the sound of the pipe.

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They spend their days in prosperity, and in peace they go down to Sheol.

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They say to God, 'Depart from us! We do not desire the knowledge of thy ways.

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What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? And what profit do we get if we pray to him?'

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Behold, is not their prosperity in their hand? The counsel of the wicked is far from me.

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"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?

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That they are like straw before the wind, and like chaff that the storm carries away?

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You say, 'God stores up their iniquity for their sons.' Let him recompense it to themselves, that they may know it.

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Let their own eyes see their destruction, and let them drink of the wrath of the Almighty.

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

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Will any teach God knowledge, seeing that he judges those that are on high?

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One dies in full prosperity, being wholly at ease and secure,

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his body full of fat and the marrow of his bones moist.

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Another dies in bitterness of soul, never having tasted of good.

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They lie down alike in the dust, and the worms cover them.

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"Behold, I know your thoughts, and your schemes to wrong me.

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For you say, 'Where is the house of the prince? Where is the tent in which the wicked dwelt?'

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Have you not asked those who travel the roads, and do you not accept their testimony

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that the wicked man is spared in the day of calamity, that he is rescued in the day of wrath?

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Who declares his way to his face, and who requites him for what he has done?

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When he is borne to the grave, watch is kept over his tomb.

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The clods of the valley are sweet to him; all men follow after him, and those who go before him are innumerable.

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How then will you comfort me with empty nothings? There is nothing left of your answers but falsehood."

Job 22

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Then Eli'phaz the Te'manite answered:

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"Can a man be profitable to God? Surely he who is wise is profitable to himself.

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Is it any pleasure to the Almighty if you are righteous, or is it gain to him if you make your ways blameless?

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Is it for your fear of him that he reproves you, and enters into judgment with you?

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Is not your wickedness great? There is no end to your iniquities.

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For you have exacted pledges of your brothers for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

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You have given no water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry.

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The man with power possessed the land, and the favored man dwelt in it.

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You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless were crushed.

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Therefore snares are round about you, and sudden terror overwhelms you;

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your light is darkened, so that you cannot see, and a flood of water covers you.

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"Is not God high in the heavens? See the highest stars, how lofty they are!

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Therefore you say, 'What does God know? Can he judge through the deep darkness?

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Thick clouds enwrap him, so that he does not see, and he walks on the vault of heaven.'

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Will you keep to the old way which wicked men have trod?

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They were snatched away before their time; their foundation was washed away.

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They said to God, 'Depart from us,' and 'What can the Almighty do to us?'

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Yet he filled their houses with good things--but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

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The righteous see it and are glad; the innocent laugh them to scorn,

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saying, 'Surely our adversaries are cut off, and what they left the fire has consumed.'

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"Agree with God, and be at peace; thereby good will come to you.

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Receive instruction from his mouth, and lay up his words in your heart.

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If you return to the Almighty and humble yourself, if you remove unrighteousness far from your tents,

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if you lay gold in the dust, and gold of Ophir among the stones of the torrent bed,

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and if the Almighty is your gold, and your precious silver;

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then you will delight yourself in the Almighty, and lift up your face to God.

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You will make your prayer to him, and he will hear you; and you will pay your vows.

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You will decide on a matter, and it will be established for you, and light will shine on your ways.

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For God abases the proud, but he saves the lowly.

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He delivers the innocent man; you will be delivered through the cleanness of your hands."

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