Douay Bible - Job Chapter 21

Job 21:1
Then Job answered, and said:

Job 21:2
Hear, I beseech you, my words, and do penance.

Job 21:3
Suffer me, and I will speak, and after, if you please, laugh at my words.

Job 21:4
Is my debate against man, that I should not have just reason to be troubled?

Job 21:5
Hearken to me and be astonished, and lay your finger on your mouth.

Job 21:6
As for me, when I remember, I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh.

Job 21:7
Why then do the wicked live, are they advanced, and strengthened with riches?

Job 21:8
Their seed continueth before them, a multitude of kinsmen, and of children’s children in their sight.

Job 21:9
Their houses are secure and peaceable, and the rod of God is not upon them.

Job 21:10
Their cattle have conceived, and failed not: their cow has calved, and is not deprived of her fruit.

Job 21:11
Their little ones go out like a flock, and their children dance and play.

Job 21:12
They take the timbrel, and the harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ.

Job 21:13
They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment they go down to hell.

Job 21:14
Who have said to God: depart from us, we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.

Job 21:15
Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what doth it profit us if we pray to him?

Job 21:16
Yet because their good things are not in their hand, may the counsel of the wicked be far from me.

Job 21:17
How often shall the lamp of the wicked be put out, and a deluge come upon them, and he shall distribute the sorrows of his wrath?

Job 21:18
They shall be as chaff before the face of the wind, and as ashes which the whirlwind scattereth.

Job 21:19
God shall lay up the sorrow of the father for his children: and when he shall repay, then shall he know.

Job 21:20
His eyes shall see his own destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty.

Job 21:21
For what is it to him what befalleth his house after him: and if the number of his months be diminished by one half?

Job 21:22
Shall any one teach God knowledge, who judgeth those that are high?

Job 21:23
One man dieth strong, and hale, rich and happy.

Job 21:24
His bowels are full of fat, and his bones are moistened with marrow.

Job 21:25
But another dieth in bitterness of soul without any riches:

Job 21:26
And yet they shall sleep together in the dust, and worms shall cover them.

Job 21:27
Surely I know your thoughts, and your unjust judgments against me.

Job 21:28
For you say: Where is the house of the prince ? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked?

Job 21:29
Ask any one of them that go by the way, and you shall perceive that he knoweth these same things.

Job 21:30
Because the wicked man is reserved to the day of destruction, and he shall be brought to the day of wrath.

Job 21:31
Who shall reprove his way to his face? and who shall repay him what he hath done?

Job 21:32
He shall be brought to the graves, and shall watch in the heap of the dead.

Job 21:33
He hath been acceptable to the gravel of Cocytus, and he shall draw every man after him, and there are innumerable before him.

Job 21:34
How then do ye comfort me in vain, whereas your answer is shewn to be repugnant to truth ?