### Noah Webster Bible

Job 20

## The Book of Job

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| # Chapter 21
| But Job answered and said,
| Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations.
| Suffer me that I may speak; and after I have spoken, mock on.
| As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled?
| Mark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth.
| Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh.
| Why do the wicked live, become old, and, are mighty in power?
| Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes.
| Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them.
| Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf.
| They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.
| They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ.
| They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.
| Therefore they say to God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.
| What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray to him?
| Lo, their good is not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
| How oft is the candle of the wicked put out? and how oft cometh their destruction upon them? God distributeth sorrows in his anger.
| They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.
| God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know it.
| His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
| For what pleasure hath he in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off in the midst?
| Shall any teach God knowledge? seeing he judgeth those that are high.
| One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.
| His breasts are full of milk, and his bones are moistened with marrow.
| And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never eateth with pleasure.
| They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them.
| Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me.
| For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked?
| Have ye not asked them that go by the way? and do ye not know their tokens,
| That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they will be brought forth to the day of wrath.
| Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him what he hath done?
| Yet he shall be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb.
| The clods of the valley will be sweet to him, and every man will draw after him, as there are innumerable before him.
| How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood?

Job 22

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