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Job 21:4 - 21:18
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As for me, is my musing to man?
And why should I not be impatient?
5 Look at me, and be appalled,
And put your hand over your mouth.
6 Even when I remember, I am dismayed,
And horror seizes my flesh.
7 Why do the wicked still live,
Continue on, also become very powerful?
8 Their seed is established with them in their presence,
And their offspring before their eyes,
9 Their houses are safe from dread,
And the rod of God is not on them.
10 His ox mates and does not fail;
His cow calves and does not miscarry.
11 They send forth their little ones like the flock,
And their children skip about.
12 They lift up the tambourine and harp
And are glad at the sound of the pipe.
13 They spend their days in prosperity,
And suddenly they go down to Sheol.
14 They say to God, ‘Depart from us!
We do not even desire the knowledge of Your ways.
15 Who is the Almighty, that we should serve Him,
And what would we profit if we entreat Him?’
16 Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand;
The counsel of the wicked is far from me.
17
“How often is the lamp of the wicked put out,
Or does their disaster fall on them?
Does God apportion destruction in His anger?
18 Are they as straw before the wind,
And like chaff which the storm steals away?
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