| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | Holman Christian Standard Bible |
| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Then Job answered: |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Pay close attention to my words; let this be the consolation you offer. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Bear with me while I speak; then after I have spoken, you may continue mocking. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4As for me, is my complaint against a man? Then why shouldn't I be impatient? |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Look at me and shudder; put your hand over your mouth. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6When I think about it, I am terrified and my body trembles in horror. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Why do the wicked continue to live, growing old and becoming powerful? |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Their children are established while they are still alive, and their descendants, before their eyes. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Their homes are secure and free of fear; no rod from God strikes them. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Their bulls breed without fail; their cows calve and do not miscarry. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11They let their little ones run around like lambs; their children skip about, |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12singing to the tambourine and lyre and rejoicing at the sound of the flute. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13They spend their days in prosperity and go down to Sheol in peace. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Yet they say to God: "Leave us alone! We don't want to know Your ways. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15Who is the Almighty, that we should serve Him, and what will we gain by pleading with Him?" |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16But their prosperity is not of their own doing. The counsel of the wicked is far from me! |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17How often is the lamp of the wicked put out? Does disaster come on them? Does He apportion destruction in His anger? |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18Are they like straw before the wind, like chaff a storm sweeps away? |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19God reserves a person's punishment for his children. Let God repay the person himself, so that he may know it. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Let his own eyes see his demise; let him drink from the Almighty's wrath! |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21For what does he care about his family once he is dead, when the number of his months has run out? |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22Can anyone teach God knowledge, since He judges the exalted ones? |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23One person dies in excellent health, completely secure and at ease. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24His body is well fed, and his bones are full of marrow. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25Yet another person dies with a bitter soul, having never tasted prosperity. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26But they both lie in the dust, and worms cover them. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27I know your thoughts very well, the schemes you would wrong me with. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28For you say, "Where now is the nobleman's house?" and "Where are the tents the wicked lived in?" |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29Have you never consulted those who travel the roads? Don't you accept their reports? |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30Indeed, the evil man is spared from the day of disaster, rescued from the day of wrath. |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31Who would denounce his behavior to his face? Who would repay him for what he has done? |
| 32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32He is carried to the grave, and someone keeps watch over his tomb. |
| 33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33The dirt on his grave is sweet to him. Everyone follows behind him, and those who go before him are without number. |
| 34[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 34So how can you offer me such futile comfort? Your answers are deceptive. |
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