{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/akjv/job/21","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-30T10:14:57.476Z"},"reference":{"translation":"AKJV","book":"Job","bookSlug":"job","chapter":21,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":20,"nextChapter":22,"totalChapters":42,"totalVerses":34},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"But Job answered and said,"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled?"},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"Mark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand on your mouth."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling takes hold on my flesh."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"Why do the wicked live, become old, yes, are mighty in power?"},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God on them."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"Their bull engenders, and fails not; their cow calves, and casts not her calf."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"They take the tambourine and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"Therefore they say to God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of your ways."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray to him?"},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"See, their good is not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and how oft comes their destruction on them! God distributes sorrows in his anger."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carries away."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"God lays up his iniquity for his children: he rewards him, and he shall know it."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"For what pleasure has he in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off in the middle?"},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"Shall any teach God knowledge? seeing he judges those that are high."},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"One dies in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet."},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"His breasts are full of milk, and his bones are moistened with marrow."},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"And another dies in the bitterness of his soul, and never eats with pleasure."},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them."},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which you wrongfully imagine against me."},{"verseNumber":28,"text":"For you say, Where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked?"},{"verseNumber":29,"text":"Have you not asked them that go by the way? and do you not know their tokens,"},{"verseNumber":30,"text":"That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath."},{"verseNumber":31,"text":"Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him what he has done?"},{"verseNumber":32,"text":"Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb."},{"verseNumber":33,"text":"The clods of the valley shall be sweet to him, and every man shall draw after him, as there are innumerable before him."},{"verseNumber":34,"text":"How then comfort you me in vain, seeing in your answers there remains falsehood?"}],"citation":{"inline":"Job 21 (AKJV)","markdown":"[Job 21](https://primebible.com/akjv/job/21)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* AKJV. https://primebible.com/akjv/job/21 (accessed 2026-05-30)."}}