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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1In response, Job said: |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2"Listen carefully to my words; let this encourage all of you. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Bear with me and let me speak! Then, after I've spoken, you'll be free to mock me. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4After all, isn't my complaint against a human being? If so, why shouldn't I be impatient? |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Look at me, be appalled, and then shut up! |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6When I think about this, I'm petrified with terror and my body shudders uncontrollably." |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7"Why do the wicked live to reach old age and increase in power and wealth, too? |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Their children grow up while they're alive, and they live to see their grandchildren. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Their houses are safe from fear, and God's chastisement never visits them. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Their bull breeds without fail, and their cows calve without miscarriages. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11They release their children to play like sheep; their young ones dance about, |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12singing with tambourines and lyres as they rejoice to the sound of flutes. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13They grow old in prosperity, as they descend peacefully into the afterlife. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14"They say to God, 'Turn away from us! We have no desire to know your ways. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him? Where's the profit in talking to him?' |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Behold! Their prosperity isn't in their control! The counsel of the wicked will remain far from me." |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17"How often do the wicked have their lights put out? Does calamity ever fall on them? Will God in his anger ever apportion their destruction? |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18May they become like a straw, blown away before the wind; like a chaff that's swept off by a storm. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19God stores up their iniquity to repay their children; making them repay so that they may be aware. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Their own eyes will see their destruction; and they'll drink the wrath of the Almighty. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21What will they care for their household after them, when the number of his months comes to an end?" |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22"Can God learn anything? After all, he will judge even the exalted ones. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23Such persons will die in their full vigor, completely prosperous and secure. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24His buckets are filled with milk, his bone marrow is healthy. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25Others die with a bitter soul, never having tasted the good life. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26They both lie down in the dust; and worms cover them." |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27"Look! I know your thoughts, your plans are going to harm me. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28You ask, 'Where is the noble person's house?' and 'Where are the tents where the wicked live?' |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29Haven't you asked travelers on the highway? Don't you accept their word |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30that the wicked person is spared from times of calamity, that he is rescued on the day of wrath? |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31Who will expose his conduct to his face? Who will repay him for what he has done |
| 32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32when he is carried away to the cemetery and guardians are placed to watch his tomb? |
| 33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33The runoff from the streams will seem sweet to him; everyone will follow after him; countless crows march ahead of him. |
| 34[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 34How then, can you console me so worthlessly? What is left of your answers is treachery." |
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