# Daily Bible Reading | Job 21

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# ***JOB 21***

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*Job Replies: The Wicked Do Prosper*

\[1\] Then Job answered and said:

\[2\] “Keep listening to my words,

and let this be your comfort.

\[3\] Bear with me, and I will speak,

and after I have spoken, mock on.

\[4\] As for me, is my complaint against man?

Why should I not be impatient?

\[5\] Look at me and be appalled,

and lay your hand over your mouth.

\[6\] When I remember, I am dismayed,

and shuddering seizes my flesh.

\[7\] Why do the wicked live,

reach old age, and grow mighty in power?

\[8\] Their offspring are established in their presence,

and their descendants before their eyes.

\[9\] Their houses are safe from fear,

and no rod of God is upon them.

\[10\] Their bull breeds without fail;

their cow calves and does not miscarry.

\[11\] They send out their little boys like a flock,

and their children dance.

\[12\] They sing to the tambourine and the lyre

and rejoice to the sound of the pipe.

\[13\] They spend their days in prosperity,

and in peace they go down to Sheol.

\[14\] They say to God, ‘Depart from us!

We do not desire the knowledge of your ways.

\[15\] What is the Almighty, that we should serve him?

And what profit do we get if we pray to him?’

\[16\] Behold, is not their prosperity in their hand?

The counsel of the wicked is far from me.

\[17\] “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?

\[18\] That they are like straw before the wind,

and like chaff that the storm carries away?

\[19\] You say, ‘God stores up their iniquity for their children.’

Let him pay it out to them, that they may know it.

\[20\] Let their own eyes see their destruction,

and let them drink of the wrath of the Almighty.

\[21\] For what do they care for their houses after them,

when the number of their months is cut off?

\[22\] Will any teach God knowledge,

seeing that he judges those who are on high?

\[23\] One dies in his full vigor,

being wholly at ease and secure,

\[24\] his pails full of milk

and the marrow of his bones moist.

\[25\] Another dies in bitterness of soul,

never having tasted of prosperity.

\[26\] They lie down alike in the dust,

and the worms cover them.

\[27\] “Behold, I know your thoughts

and your schemes to wrong me.

\[28\] For you say, ‘Where is the house of the prince?

Where is the tent in which the wicked lived?’

\[29\] Have you not asked those who travel the roads,

and do you not accept their testimony

\[30\] that the evil man is spared in the day of calamity,

that he is rescued in the day of wrath?

\[31\] Who declares his way to his face,

and who repays him for what he has done?

\[32\] When he is carried to the grave,

watch is kept over his tomb.

\[33\] The clods of the valley are sweet to him;

all mankind follows after him,

and those who go before him are innumerable.

\[34\] How then will you comfort me with empty nothings?

There is nothing left of your answers but falsehood.” (ESV)