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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Then Job replied: |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2"Listen carefully to my words; let this be the consolation you give me. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Bear with me while I speak, and after I have spoken, mock on. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4"Is my complaint directed to a human being? Why should I not be impatient? |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Look at me and be appalled; clap your hand over your mouth. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6When I think about this, I am terrified; trembling seizes my body. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Why do the wicked live on, growing old and increasing in power? |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8They see their children established around them, their offspring before their eyes. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Their homes are safe and free from fear; the rod of God is not on them. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Their bulls never fail to breed; their cows calve and do not miscarry. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11They send forth their children as a flock; their little ones dance about. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12They sing to the music of timbrel and lyre; they make merry to the sound of the pipe. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13They spend their years in prosperity and go down to the grave in peace. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Yet they say to God, 'Leave us alone! 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? What would we gain by praying to him?' |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16But their prosperity is not in their own hands, so I stand aloof from the plans of the wicked. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17"Yet how often is the lamp of the wicked snuffed out? How often does calamity come upon them, the fate God allots in his anger? |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18How often are they like straw before the wind, like chaff swept away by a gale? |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19It is said, 'God stores up the punishment of the wicked for their children.' Let him repay the wicked, so that they themselves will experience it! |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Let their own eyes see their destruction; let them drink the cup of the wrath of the Almighty. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21For what do they care about the families they leave behind when their allotted months come to an end? |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22"Can anyone teach knowledge to God, since he judges even the highest? |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23One person dies in full vigor, completely secure and at ease, |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24well nourished in body, bones rich with marrow. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25Another dies in bitterness of soul, never having enjoyed anything good. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26Side by side they lie in the dust, and worms cover them both. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27"I know full well what you are thinking, the schemes by which you would wrong me. |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28You say, 'Where now is the house of the great, the tents where the wicked lived?' |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29Have you never questioned those who travel? Have you paid no regard to their accounts-- |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30that the wicked are spared from the day of calamity, that they are delivered from the day of wrath? |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31Who denounces their conduct to their face? Who repays them for what they have done? |
| 32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32They are carried to the grave, and watch is kept over their tombs. |
| 33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33The soil in the valley is sweet to them; everyone follows after them, and a countless throng goes before them. |
| 34[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 34"So how can you console me with your nonsense? Nothing is left of your answers but falsehood!" |
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