{"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/erv/job/21","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-30T21:27:49.284Z"},"reference":{"translation":"ERV","book":"Job","bookSlug":"job","chapter":21,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":20,"nextChapter":22,"totalChapters":42,"totalVerses":34},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"Then Job answered and said,"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"Hear diligently my speech; and let this be your consolations."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"Suffer me, and I also will speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"As for me, is my complaint to man? and why should I not be impatient?"},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"Mark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"Even when I remember I am troubled, and horror taketh hold on my flesh."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, wax 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 sing to the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the pipe."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"They spend their days in prosperity, and in a moment they go down to Sheol."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"Yet they said 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 profit should we have, if we pray unto him?"},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"Lo, their prosperity is not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"How oft is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out? that their calamity cometh upon them? that God distributeth sorrows in his anger?"},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"That they are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away?"},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"Ye say, God layeth up his iniquity for his children. Let him recompense it unto himself, that he may know it."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"Let his own eyes see his destruction, and let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"For what pleasure hath he in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off in the midst?"},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"Shall any teach God knowledge? seeing he judgeth those that are high."},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet:"},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"His breasts are full of milk, and the marrow of his bones is moistened."},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"And another dieth in bitterness of soul, and never tasteth of good."},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"They lie down alike in the dust, and the worm covereth them."},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me."},{"verseNumber":28,"text":"For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? and where is the tent wherein the wicked dwelt?"},{"verseNumber":29,"text":"Have ye not asked them that go by the way? and do ye not know their tokens?"},{"verseNumber":30,"text":"That the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity? that 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 shall he be borne to the grave, and shall keep watch over the tomb."},{"verseNumber":33,"text":"The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, and all men shall draw after him, as there were innumerable before him."},{"verseNumber":34,"text":"How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth only falsehood?"}],"citation":{"inline":"Job 21 (ERV)","markdown":"[Job 21](https://primebible.com/erv/job/21)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* ERV. https://primebible.com/erv/job/21 (accessed 2026-05-30)."}}