{"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/dbt/job/21","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-27T01:12:59.805Z"},"reference":{"translation":"DBT","book":"Job","bookSlug":"job","chapter":21,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":20,"nextChapter":22,"totalChapters":42,"totalVerses":34},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"And Job answered and said,"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"Hear attentively my speech, and let this replace your consolations."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"Suffer me and I will speak; and after I have spoken, mock on!"},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"As for me, is my complaint to a man? or wherefore should not my spirit be impatient?"},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"Mark me, and be astonished, and lay the hand upon the mouth."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"Even when I think thereon, I am affrighted, and trembling taketh hold of my flesh."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"Wherefore do the wicked live, grow old, yea, become mighty in power?"},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Their seed is established with them in their sight, and their offspring before their eyes."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of +God upon them."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"They shout to the tambour and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the pipe."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"They spend their days in prosperity, and in a moment go down to Sheol."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"And they say unto God, Depart from us, for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways!"},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"What is the Almighty that we should serve him? and what are we profited if we pray unto him?"},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand. The counsel of the wicked be far from me!"},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"How often is the lamp of the wicked put out, and cometh their calamity upon them? Doth he distribute sorrows to them in his anger?"},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"Do they become as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away?"},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"+God layeth up the punishment of his iniquity for his children; he rewardeth him, and he shall know it:"},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the fury of the Almighty."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"For what pleasure should he have in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off?"},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"Can any teach God knowledge? And he it is that judgeth those that are high."},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet;"},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"His sides are full of fat, and the marrow of his bones is moistened;"},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"And another dieth in bitterness of soul, and hath not tasted good:"},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"Together they lie down in the dust, and the worms cover them."},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"Lo, I know your thoughts, and the devices ye wrongfully imagine against me."},{"verseNumber":28,"text":"For ye say, Where is the house of the noble? and where the tent of the dwellings of the wicked?"},{"verseNumber":29,"text":"Have ye not asked the wayfarers? and do ye not regard their tokens:"},{"verseNumber":30,"text":"That the wicked is reserved for the day of calamity? They are led forth to the day of wrath."},{"verseNumber":31,"text":"Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him what he hath done?"},{"verseNumber":32,"text":"Yet is he carried to the graves, and watch is kept over the tomb."},{"verseNumber":33,"text":"The clods of the valley are sweet unto him; and every man followeth suit after him, as there were innumerable before him."},{"verseNumber":34,"text":"How then comfort ye me in vain? Your answers remain perfidious."}],"citation":{"inline":"Job 21 (DBT)","markdown":"[Job 21](https://primebible.com/dbt/job/21)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* DBT. https://primebible.com/dbt/job/21 (accessed 2026-05-27)."}}