{"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/ylt/job/21","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-27T00:28:59.994Z"},"reference":{"translation":"YLT","book":"Job","bookSlug":"job","chapter":21,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":20,"nextChapter":22,"totalChapters":42,"totalVerses":34},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"And Job answereth and saith: — "},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"Hear ye diligently my word, And this is your consolation."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"Bear with me, and I speak, And after my speaking — ye may deride."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"I — to man is my complaint? and if so, wherefore May not my temper become short?"},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"Turn unto me, and be astonished, And put hand to mouth."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"Yea, if I have remembered, then I have been troubled. And my flesh hath taken fright."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"Wherefore do the wicked live? They have become old, Yea, they have been mighty in wealth."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Their seed is established, Before their face with them, And their offspring before their eyes."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"Their houses are peace without fear, Nor is a rod of God upon them."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"His bullock hath eaten corn, and doth not loath. His cow bringeth forth safely, And doth not miscarry."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"They send forth as a flock their sucklings, And their children skip,"},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"They lift themselves up at timbrel and harp, And rejoice at the sound of an organ."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"They wear out in good their days, And in a moment to Sheol go down."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"And they say to God, 'Turn aside from us, And the knowledge of Thy ways We have not desired."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"What is the Mighty One that we serve Him? And what do we profit when we meet with Him?'"},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"Lo, not in their hand is their good, (The counsel of the wicked Hath been far from me.)"},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"How oft is the lamp of the wicked extinguished, And come on them doth their calamity? Pangs He apportioneth in His anger."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"They are as straw before wind, And as chaff a hurricane hath stolen away,"},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"God layeth up for his sons his sorrow, He giveth recompense unto him — and he knoweth."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"His own eyes see his destruction, And of the wrath of the Mighty he drinketh."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"For what is his delight in his house after him, And the number of his months cut off?"},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"To God doth one teach knowledge, And He the high doth judge?"},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"This one dieth in his perfect strength, Wholly at ease and quiet."},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"His breasts have been full of milk, And marrow his bones doth moisten."},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"And this one dieth with a bitter soul, And have not eaten with gladness."},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"Together — on the dust they lie down, And the worm doth cover them over."},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"Lo, I have known your thoughts, And the devices against me ye do wrongfully."},{"verseNumber":28,"text":"For ye say, 'Where is the house of the noble? And where the tent — The tabernacles of the wicked?'"},{"verseNumber":29,"text":"Have ye not asked those passing by the way? And their signs do ye not know?"},{"verseNumber":30,"text":"That to a day of calamity is the wicked spared. To a day of wrath they are brought."},{"verseNumber":31,"text":"Who doth declare to his face his way? And for that which he hath done, Who doth give recompence to him?"},{"verseNumber":32,"text":"And he — to the graves he is brought. And over the heap a watch is kept."},{"verseNumber":33,"text":"Sweet to him have been the clods of the valley, And after him every man he draweth, And before him there is no numbering."},{"verseNumber":34,"text":"And how do ye comfort me with vanity, And in your answers hath been left trespass?"}],"citation":{"inline":"Job 21 (YLT)","markdown":"[Job 21](https://primebible.com/ylt/job/21)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* YLT. https://primebible.com/ylt/job/21 (accessed 2026-05-27)."}}