# Job 21

- Translation: Berean Standard Bible
- Canonical: https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/21
- License: Scripture: Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain. Source: Scriptoria (scriptoria.digital).

## Text

[1] Then Job answered: [2] “Listen carefully to my words;
let this be your consolation to me. [3] Bear with me while I speak;
then, after I have spoken, you may go on mocking. [4] Is my complaint against a man?
Then why should I not be impatient? [5] Look at me and be appalled;
put your hand over your mouth. [6] When I remember, terror takes hold,
and my body trembles in horror. [7] Why do the wicked live on,
growing old and increasing in power? [8] Their descendants are established around them,
and their offspring before their eyes. [9] Their homes are safe from fear;
no rod of punishment from God is upon them. [10] Their bulls breed without fail;
their cows bear calves and do not miscarry. [11] They send forth their little ones like a flock;
their children skip about, [12] singing to the tambourine and lyre
and making merry at the sound of the flute. [13] They spend their days in prosperity
and go down to Sheol in peace. [14] Yet they say to God: ‘Leave us alone!
For we have no desire to know Your ways. [15] Who is the Almighty, that we should serve Him,
and what would we gain if we pray to Him?’ [16] Still, their prosperity is not in their own hands,
so I stay far from the counsel of the wicked. [17] How often is the lamp of the wicked put out?
Does disaster come upon them?
Does God, in His anger, apportion destruction? [18] Are they like straw before the wind,
like chaff swept away by a storm? [19] It is said that God lays up one’s punishment for his children.
Let God repay the man himself, so he will know it. [20] Let his eyes see his own destruction;
let him drink for himself the wrath of the Almighty. [21] For what does he care about his household after him,
when the number of his months has run out? [22] Can anyone teach knowledge to God,
since He judges those on high? [23] One man dies full of vigor,
completely secure and at ease. [24] His body is well nourished,
and his bones are rich with marrow. [25] Yet another man dies in the bitterness of his soul,
having never tasted prosperity. [26] But together they lie down in the dust,
and worms cover them both. [27] Behold, I know your thoughts full well,
the schemes by which you would wrong me. [28] For you say, ‘Where now is the nobleman’s house,
and where are the tents in which the wicked dwell?’ [29] Have you never asked those who travel the roads?
Do you not accept their reports? [30] Indeed, the evil man is spared from the day of calamity,
delivered from the day of wrath. [31] Who denounces his behavior to his face?
Who repays him for what he has done? [32] He is carried to the grave,
and watch is kept over his tomb. [33] The clods of the valley are sweet to him;
everyone follows behind him,
and those before him are without number. [34] So how can you comfort me with empty words?
For your answers remain full of falsehood.”

## Each verse

- Job 21:1 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/21/1
- Job 21:2 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/21/2
- Job 21:3 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/21/3
- Job 21:4 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/21/4
- Job 21:5 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/21/5
- Job 21:6 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/21/6
- Job 21:7 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/21/7
- Job 21:8 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/21/8
- Job 21:9 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/21/9
- Job 21:10 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/21/10
- Job 21:11 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/21/11
- Job 21:12 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/21/12
- Job 21:13 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/21/13
- Job 21:14 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/21/14
- Job 21:15 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/21/15
- Job 21:16 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/21/16
- Job 21:17 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/21/17
- Job 21:18 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/21/18
- Job 21:19 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/21/19
- Job 21:20 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/21/20
- Job 21:21 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/21/21
- Job 21:22 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/21/22
- Job 21:23 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/21/23
- Job 21:24 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/21/24
- Job 21:25 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/21/25
- Job 21:26 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/21/26
- Job 21:27 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/21/27
- Job 21:28 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/21/28
- Job 21:29 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/21/29
- Job 21:30 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/21/30
- Job 21:31 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/21/31
- Job 21:32 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/21/32
- Job 21:33 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/21/33
- Job 21:34 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/21/34