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Job 21 - Job Replies: The Wicked Often Go Unpunished

Then Job answered: 2 “Listen carefully to my words, and let this be your consolation. 3 Bear with me, and I will speak; then after I have...

Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered: 2 “Can a mortal be of use to God? Can even the wisest be of service to him? 3 Is it any pleasure to...

Then Job answered: 2 “Today also my complaint is bitter;[a] his[b] hand is heavy despite my groaning. 3 Oh, that I knew where I might...

“Why are times not kept by the Almighty,[a] and why do those who know him never see his days? 2 The wicked[b] remove landmarks; they...

Then Bildad the Shuhite answered: 2 “Dominion and fear are with God;[a] he makes peace in his high heaven. 3 Is there any number to his...

Then Job answered: 2 “How you have helped one who has no power! How you have assisted the arm that has no strength! 3 How you have...

Job again took up his discourse and said: 2 “As God lives, who has taken away my right, and the Almighty,[a] who has made my soul bitter,...

“Surely there is a mine for silver, and a place for gold to be refined. 2 Iron is taken out of the earth, and copper is smelted from ore....

Job again took up his discourse and said: 2 “O that I were as in the months of old, as in the days when God watched over me; 3 when his...

“But now they make sport of me, those who are younger than I, whose fathers I would have disdained to set with the dogs of my flock....

“I have made a covenant with my eyes; how then could I look upon a virgin? 2 What would be my portion from God above, and my heritage...

So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes. 2 Then Elihu son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family...

“But now, hear my speech, O Job, and listen to all my words. 2 See, I open my mouth; the tongue in my mouth speaks. 3 My words declare...

Then Elihu continued and said: 2 “Hear my words, you wise men, and give ear to me, you who know; 3 for the ear tests words as the palate...

Elihu continued and said: 2 “Do you think this to be just? You say, ‘I am in the right before God.’ 3 If you ask, ‘What advantage have I?...

Elihu continued and said: 2 “Bear with me a little, and I will show you, for I have yet something to say on God’s behalf. 3 I will bring...

“At this also my heart trembles, and leaps out of its place. 2 Listen, listen to the thunder of his voice and the rumbling that comes...

Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind: 2 “Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge? 3 Gird up your loins...

“Do you know when the mountain goats give birth? Do you observe the calving of the deer? 2 Can you number the months that they fulfill,...

And the Lord said to Job: 2 “Shall a faultfinder contend with the Almighty?[a] Anyone who argues with God must respond.” Job’s Response...

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