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Book of Job, Chapter 21

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Chapter 21 of Job—Revised Standard Version (RSV)

  1. ¶ Then Job answered:
  2. ¶ “Listen carefully to my words,
      and let this be your consolation.
  3. Bear with me, and I will speak,
      and after I have spoken, mock on.
  4. As for me, is my complaint against man?
      Why should I not be impatient?
  5. Look at me, and be appalled,
      and lay your hand upon your mouth.
  6. When I think of it I am dismayed,
      and shuddering seizes my flesh.
  7. Why do the wicked live,
      reach old age, and grow mighty in power?
  8. Their children are established in their presence,
      and their offspring before their eyes.
  9. Their houses are safe from fear,
      and no rod of God is upon them.
  10. Their bull breeds without fail;
      their cow calves, and does not cast her calf.
  11. They send forth their little ones like a flock,
      and their children dance.
  12. They sing to the tambourine and the lyre,
      and rejoice to the sound of the pipe.
  13. They spend their days in prosperity,
      and in peace they go down to Sheol.
  14. They say to God, ‘Depart from us!
      We do not desire the knowledge of thy ways.
  15. What is the Almighty, that we should serve him?
      And what profit do we get if we pray to him?’
  16. Behold, is not their prosperity in their hand?
      The counsel of the wicked is far from me.
  17. ¶ “How often is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out?
      That their calamity comes upon them?
      That God[a] distributes pains in his anger?
  18. That they are like straw before the wind,
      and like chaff that the storm carries away?
  19. You say, ‘God stores up their iniquity for their sons.’
      Let him recompense it to themselves, that they may know it.
  20. Let their own eyes see their destruction,
      and let them drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
  21. For what do they care for their houses after them,
      when the number of their months is cut off?
  22. Will any teach God knowledge,
      seeing that he judges those that are on high?
  23. One dies in full prosperity,
      being wholly at ease and secure,
  24. his body[b] full of fat
      and the marrow of his bones moist.
  25. Another dies in bitterness of soul,
      never having tasted of good.
  26. They lie down alike in the dust,
      and the worms cover them.
  27. ¶ “Behold, I know your thoughts,
      and your schemes to wrong me.
  28. For you say, ‘Where is the house of the prince?
      Where is the tent in which the wicked dwelt?’
  29. Have you not asked those who travel the roads,
      and do you not accept their testimony
  30. that the wicked man is spared in the day of calamity,
      that he is rescued in the day of wrath?
  31. Who declares his way to his face,
      and who requites him for what he has done?
  32. When he is borne to the grave,
      watch is kept over his tomb.
  33. The clods of the valley are sweet to him;
      all men follow after him,
      and those who go before him are innumerable.
  34. How then will you comfort me with empty nothings?
      There is nothing left of your answers but falsehood.”

FOOTNOTES

  1. ^ Heb he
  2. ^ The meaning of the Hebrew word in uncertain

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Comments

  1. David yakubuDavid yakubu
    Oct 29, 2022 08:05 GMT

    When i do read some comments and seeing that its the same people that are supposed to be called believers but are talking ill of other denominations, it hurts. Let us all remember that We should judge not

    1. jonas smithjonas smith
      Apr 23, 2023 02:57 GMT

      The bible tells us to test the spirits. Satan disguises himself as angel of light. So yes some denomination are not teaching the truth. You are responsible for judging which ones are not. You have to judge the truth at all times. this is what the bible teaches

  2. THTH
    Apr 7, 2021 00:20 GMT

    The NWT is a very good translation. Dr. Jason David BeDuhn PhD attests to that in his book Truth in Translation. drive.google.com/...5p16melHzg8/view

    1. James LernerJames Lerner
      Jul 20, 2024 09:48 GMT

      The NWT is Satanic filth to its very core.

      The JW Cult is Satanic to its very core.

      Praise Yahweh I will never be a victim of JW brainwashing. If I burn in Hell for eternity or I am ultimately annihilated so be it

      May Yahweh's curse rest on the Watchtower Society and its Satanic leadership

    2. jim mcleodjim mcleod
      Aug 22, 2021 06:16 GMT

      NWT is a false translation that takes away from the deity of Jesus !

  3. SlightlyChaoticSlightlyChaotic
    Jan 30, 2021 16:33 GMT

    Thank you for taking the time to provide this service. I like seeing the NASB on your web page in the same format as I read on paper. On other sites, the text area is smaller, and so I have to keep scrolling down to read and sometimes I lose the context. So I really appreciate the format.

    As far as the NWT, you are certainly free to do whatever you think best with your own web pages. I'd suggest that you make a note anytime you have a translation that is associated with only one denomination or church, for example:
    New World Translation (Jehovah's Witness version).

    In Jesus' parable of the wheat and the tares. the main idea seems to be that you can't easily distinguish between God's people and not-God's people on this earth, so our Lord's response is to wait until they are shown to be the kind of people they are inside. But the NWT seems like false teaching to me. So I think the warning passages from Jesus' apostles are more applicable, as in 2 Peter 3:15-16, when he talks about Paul's writings:
    "There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures."
    And we also have the positive exhortations, as in 2 Timothy 2:15:
    "Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth."

    1. BroderickBroderick
      Jan 31, 2021 00:57 GMT

      Your suggestion regarding the denominational flagging is duly noted. But I can’t help but wonder, wouldn’t a Catholic also want “Protestant versions” marked as well?

      As for the parable, I’m pretty sure the slaves were convinced in their own minds that they could tell the tares from the wheat. After all, aren’t they the ones who identified the problem in the first place? But the master obviously thought otherwise.

      Furthermore, even at the time when Jesus himself was walking the earth, not everybody who claimed fellowship actually followed him causing John to inquire at Mark 9:39, “Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in Your name, and we tried to prevent him because he was not following us.” But Jesus said, “Do not hinder him . . . for he who is not against us is for us.”

  4. Joshua HarderJoshua Harder
    Dec 11, 2020 17:48 GMT

    Hello, question.. why have you included the NWT with other legitimate bible translations? Or why have you not atleast included a warning to readers? Don't you fear that someone could be influenced by the Watchtower's intentional heresies? Thank you.

    1. KevinKevin
      Jul 11, 2021 17:45 GMT

      en.m.wikipedia.org/..._Holy_Scriptures

      See the section critical review

    2. ChrisChris
      Jan 8, 2021 07:15 GMT

      Please site these intentional heresies. I am well versed in the watch tower outline and agree they are in many ways incorrect but i also bet i can point many out from EVERY established or main denomination. There is much to learn from them all as one who drinks milk?

      Judge not lest ye be judged, that is not to pass judgement on you either brother.

      I debate with scripture. I don't hold it to be true that Michael is Y'Shua HaMeshiach but I also firmly hold it to be true that our G-d and Heavenly Father are not the word encarnate and only begotten son.

      I love not seeing "lord" which i relate to baal. I feel the catholic church is a satanic establishment and I am aware a freemason started the hovies but there are evil in high places and our fight is also with principalities.

      What i'm saying is that in my darkest hours, those two were some of if not the only ones who would bring a Bible and eucharist and pray with me.

      We all fall short of the glory of G-d.

      Don't forget the NWT was recognized as the most accurate translation on Jeopardy.

      Lastly, this is different I noted than the NWT i have read and am very familiar with. Pull up the watchtower page and compare. I truly look forward to getting this one!

  5. julietjuliet
    Aug 17, 2022 09:36 GMT

    the sky is blue

  6. mercymercy
    Aug 12, 2022 21:23 GMT

    i am Mercy, the sky is blue what else do you need

    1. mercymercy
      Aug 12, 2022 21:25 GMT

      i am so sorry, it was a big mistake

  7. God is able to do all thingsGod is able to do all things
    May 17, 2021 17:59 GMT

    Jesus how much love calling yo name

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