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Job 21

Job asks the friends to listen and then confronts their retribution theory with observable reality: wicked people often live, grow old, become mighty, enjoy family prosperity, and die without the dramatic collapse the friends predict. Job does not deny final accountability; he denies their claim that present circumstances reliably reveal moral standing.

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Job asks the friends to listen and then confronts their retribution theory with observable reality: wicked people often live, grow old, become mighty, enjoy family prosperity, and die without the dramatic collapse the friends predict. Job does not deny final accountability; he denies their claim that present circumstances reliably reveal moral standing.

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Verses 1–6Job asks his friends to listen carefully before they continue mocking himVerses 7–16Job points out that wicked people often live long, prosper, and tell God to depart from themVerses 17–21Job questions how often the wicked are visibly destroyed in this lifeVerses 22–26Job says people die in very different circumstances but lie down alike in the dustVerses 27–34Job rejects his friends’ reasoning and says their answers do not truly comfort him
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1But Job answered and said,2Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations.3Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I…4As for me, is my complaint to man? and if…5Mark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon…6Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling taketh…7Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty…8Their seed is established in their sight with them, and…9Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod…10Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and…11They send forth their little ones like a flock, and…12They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the…13They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment…14Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we…15What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and…16Lo, their good is not in their hand: the counsel…17How oft is the candle of the wicked put out!…18They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff…19God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth…20His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink…21For what pleasure hath he in his house after him,…22Shall any teach God knowledge? seeing he judgeth those that…23One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease…24His breasts are full of milk, and his bones are…25And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and…26They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the…27Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye…28For ye say, Where is the house of the prince?…29Have ye not asked them that go by the way?…30That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction?…31Who shall declare his way to his face? and who…32Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall…33The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him,…34How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your…