{"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/web/job/21","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-10T00:40:30.866Z"},"reference":{"translation":"WEB","book":"Job","bookSlug":"job","chapter":21,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":20,"nextChapter":22,"totalChapters":42,"totalVerses":34},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"Then Job answered,"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"|Listen diligently to my speech. Let this be your consolation."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"Allow me, and I also will speak; After I have spoken, mock on."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"As for me, is my complaint to man? Why shouldn't I be impatient?"},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"Look at me, and be astonished. Lay your hand on your mouth."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"When I remember, I am troubled. Horror takes hold of my flesh."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"|Why do the wicked live, become old, yes, and grow mighty in power?"},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Their child is established with them in their sight, 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 bulls breed without fail. Their cows calve, and don't miscarry."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"They send forth their little ones like a flock. Their children dance."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"They sing to the tambourine and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the pipe."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"They spend their days in prosperity. In an instant they go down to Sheol."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"They tell God, 'Depart from us, for we don't want to know about your ways."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What profit should we have, if we pray to him?'"},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand. The counsel of the wicked is far from me."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"|How often is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out, that their calamity comes on them, that God distributes sorrows in his anger?"},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"How often is it that they are as stubble before the wind, as chaff that the storm carries away?"},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"You say, 'God lays up his iniquity for his children.' Let him recompense it to himself, that he may know it."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"Let his own eyes see his destruction. Let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"For what does he care for his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off?"},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"|Shall any teach God knowledge, since he judges those who are high?"},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"One dies in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet."},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"His pails are full of milk. The marrow of his bones is moistened."},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"Another dies in bitterness of soul, and never tastes of good."},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"They lie down alike in the dust. The worm covers them."},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"|Behold, I know your thoughts, the devices with which you would wrong me."},{"verseNumber":28,"text":"For you say, 'Where is the house of the prince? Where is the tent in which the wicked lived?'"},{"verseNumber":29,"text":"Haven't you asked wayfaring men? Don't you know their evidences,"},{"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? Who shall repay him what he has done?"},{"verseNumber":32,"text":"Yet he will be borne to the grave. Men shall keep watch over the tomb."},{"verseNumber":33,"text":"The clods of the valley shall be sweet to him. All men shall draw after him, as there were innumerable before him."},{"verseNumber":34,"text":"So how can you comfort me with nonsense, because in your answers there remains only falsehood?|"}],"citation":{"inline":"Job 21 (WEB)","markdown":"[Job 21](https://primebible.com/web/job/21)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* WEB. https://primebible.com/web/job/21 (accessed 2026-06-10)."}}