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Job 21:1-34

21:1

But Job
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answered
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and said
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21:2

Hear
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diligently
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my speech
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and let this be your consolations
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21:3

Suffer
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me that I may speak
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and after
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that I have spoken
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mock on
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21:4

As for me, [is] my complaint
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to man
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and if [it were so], why should not my spirit
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be troubled
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{troubled: Heb. shortened?}

21:5

Mark
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me, and be astonished
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and lay
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[your] hand
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upon [your] mouth
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{Mark...: Heb. Look unto me}

21:6

Even when I remember
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I am afraid
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and trembling
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taketh hold on
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my flesh
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21:7

Wherefore do the wicked
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live
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become old
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yea, are mighty
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in power
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21:8

Their seed
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is established
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in their sight
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with them, and their offspring
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before their eyes
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21:9

Their houses
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[are] safe
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from fear
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neither [is] the rod
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of God
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upon them. {safe...: Heb. peace from}

21:10

Their bull
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gendereth
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and faileth
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not; their cow
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calveth
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and casteth not her calf
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21:11

They send forth
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their little ones
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like a flock
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and their children
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dance
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21:12

They take
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the timbrel
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and harp
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and rejoice
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at the sound
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of the organ
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21:13

They spend
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their days
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in wealth
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and in a moment
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go down
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to the grave
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{in wealth: or, in mirth}

21:14

Therefore they say
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unto God
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Depart
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from us; for we desire
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not the knowledge
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of thy ways
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21:15

What [is] the Almighty
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that we should serve
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him? and what profit
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should we have, if we pray
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unto him?

21:16

Lo, their good
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[is] not in their hand
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the counsel
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of the wicked
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is far
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from me.

21:17

How oft is the candle
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of the wicked
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put out
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and [how oft] cometh
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their destruction
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upon them! [God] distributeth
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sorrows
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in his anger
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{candle: or, lamp}

21:18

They are as stubble
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before
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the wind
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and as chaff
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that the storm
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carrieth away
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{carrieth: Heb. stealeth}

21:19

God
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layeth up
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his iniquity
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for his children
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he rewardeth
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him, and he shall know
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[it]. {his iniquity: that is, the punishment of his iniquity}

21:20

His eyes
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shall see
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his destruction
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and he shall drink
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of the wrath
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of the Almighty
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21:21

For what pleasure
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[hath] he in his house
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after
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him, when the number
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of his months
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is cut off in the midst
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21:22

Shall [any] teach
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God
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knowledge
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seeing he judgeth
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those that are high
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21:23

One dieth
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in his full
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strength
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being wholly at ease
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and quiet
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{his...: Heb. his very, or, the strength of, his perfection}

21:24

His breasts
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are full
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of milk
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and his bones
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are moistened
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with marrow
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{breasts: or, milk pails}

21:25

And another dieth
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in the bitterness
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of his soul
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and never eateth
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with pleasure
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21:26

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

21:27

Behold, I know
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your thoughts
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and the devices
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[which] ye wrongfully imagine
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against me.

21:28

For ye say
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Where [is] the house
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of the prince
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and where [are] the dwelling
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places
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of the wicked
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{the dwelling...: Heb. the tent of the tabernacles}

21:29

Have ye not asked
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them that go
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by the way
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and do ye not know
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their tokens
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21:30

That the wicked
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is reserved
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to the day
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of destruction
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they shall be brought forth
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to the day
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of wrath
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{wrath: Heb. wraths}

21:31

Who shall declare
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his way
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to his face
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and who shall repay
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him [what] he hath done
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21:32

Yet shall he be brought
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to the grave
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and shall remain
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in the tomb
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{grave: Heb. graves} {remain...: Heb. watch in the heap}

21:33

The clods
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of the valley
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shall be sweet
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unto him, and every man
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shall draw
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after
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him, as [there are] innumerable
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before
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him.

21:34

How then comfort
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ye me in vain
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seeing in your answers
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there remaineth
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falsehood
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{falsehood: Heb. transgression?}