Job 21 (NET)

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Job 21:1¹Then Job answered:Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AI

Job 21:2²“Listen carefully to my words; let this be the consolation you offer me.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Heb 2:1 Isa 55:2 Job 13:3-4 Job 15:11 Job 16:2 Job 18:2 Job 33:1 Job 33:31-33 Job 34:2 Judg 9:7

Job 21:3³Bear with me and I will speak, and after I have spoken you may mock.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Job 16:10 Job 17:2 Job 16:20 Job 12:4-5 Job 13:13 Job 13:9 Job 33:31-33

Job 21:4⁴Is my complaint against a man? If so, why should I not be impatient?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 102:1 Ps 142:2-3 Ps 42:11 1 Sam 1:16 2 Kgs 6:26-27 Exod 6:9 Job 10:1-2 Job 6:11 Job 7:11-21 Matt 26:38

Job 21:5⁵Look at me and be appalled; put your hands over your mouths.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Job 29:9 Job 40:4 Judg 18:19 Prov 30:32 Amos 5:13 Job 17:8 Job 19:20-21 Job 2:12 Mic 7:16 Ps 39:9

Job 21:6⁶For, when I think about this, I am terrified and my body feels a shudder.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Hab 3:16 Lam 3:19-20 Ps 119:120 Ps 77:3 Ps 88:15

Job 21:7⁷“Why do the wicked go on living, grow old, even increase in power?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 73:3-12 Job 12:6 Jer 12:1-3 Ps 37:35 Hab 1:13 Ps 17:10 Dan 4:17 Hab 1:15-16 Rev 13:2-7 Rev 17:2-4

Job 21:8⁸Their children are firmly established in their presence, their offspring before their eyes.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Prov 17:6 Job 18:19 Job 20:10 Job 20:28 Job 5:3-4 Ps 17:14

Job 21:9⁹Their houses are safe and without fear; and no rod of punishment from God is upon them.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Job 9:34 Ps 73:5 Isa 57:19-21 Job 15:21 Job 18:11 Ps 73:19

Job 21:10¹⁰Their bulls breed without fail; their cows calve and do not miscarry.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Exod 23:26 Deut 28:11 Deut 7:13-14 Eccl 9:1-2 Luke 12:16-21 Luke 16:19 Ps 144:13-14

Job 21:11¹¹They allow their children to run like a flock; their little ones dance about.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 107:41 Ps 127:3-5

Job 21:12¹²They sing to the accompaniment of tambourine and harp, and make merry to the sound of the flute.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Amos 6:4-6 Gen 4:21 Isa 5:12 Gen 31:27 Isa 22:13

Job 21:13¹³They live out their years in prosperity and go down to the grave in peace.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Job 36:11 Luke 12:19-20 Luke 17:28-29 Matt 24:38-39 Ps 73:4

Job 21:14¹⁴So they say to God, ‘Turn away from us! We do not want to know your ways.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Job 22:17 Rom 8:7 2 Thess 2:10-12 Ps 10:4 2 Tim 4:3-4 John 15:23-24 John 3:19-20 Prov 1:29 Hab 1:15 John 8:45-47

Job 21:15¹⁵Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What would we gain if we were to pray to him?’Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Exod 5:2 Job 34:9 Mal 1:13-14 Isa 30:11 Prov 30:9 Ps 12:4 Hos 13:6 Isa 45:19 Job 35:3 Matt 7:7

Job 21:16¹⁶But their prosperity is not their own doing. The counsel of the wicked is far from me!Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Job 22:18 Ps 1:1 Gen 49:6 Prov 1:10 Ps 49:6-7 Ps 52:5-7 Eccl 8:8 Job 1:21 Job 12:9-10 Luke 16:2

Job 21:17¹⁷“How often is the lamp of the wicked extinguished? How often does their misfortune come upon them? How often does God apportion pain to them in his anger?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Job 18:5-6 Prov 13:9 Prov 20:20 Job 18:18 Luke 12:46 Matt 25:8 Prov 24:20 Ps 32:10 Ps 90:7-9 Rom 2:8-9

Job 21:18¹⁸How often are they like straw before the wind, and like chaff swept away by a whirlwind?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 1:4 Ps 83:13 Job 13:25 Ps 35:5 Isa 17:13 Isa 29:5 Jer 13:24 Exod 15:7 Hos 13:3 Isa 40:24

Job 21:19¹⁹You may say, ‘God stores up a man’s punishment for his children!’ Instead let him repay the man himself so that he may be humbled!Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Exod 20:5 Ezek 18:19-20 Ezek 18:2 Isa 14:21 Isa 53:4-6 Jer 31:29 2 Cor 5:21 2 Tim 4:14 Deut 32:34 Ezek 18:14

Job 21:20²⁰Let his own eyes see his destruction; let him drink of the anger of the Almighty.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 51:17 Ps 75:8 Rev 14:10 Jer 25:15-16 Jer 51:7 Job 27:19 Luke 16:23 Ps 60:3 Rev 19:15

Job 21:21²¹For what is his interest in his home after his death, when the number of his months has been broken off?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Job 14:5 Eccl 2:18-19 Job 14:21 Luke 16:27-28 Ps 102:24 Ps 55:23

Job 21:22²²Can anyone teach God knowledge, since he judges those that are on high?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Rom 11:34 1 Cor 2:16 Isa 40:13-14 1 Cor 6:3 2 Pet 2:4 Eccl 5:8 Isa 40:22-23 Isa 45:9 Job 15:15 Job 34:17-19

Job 21:23²³“One man dies in his full vigor, completely secure and prosperous,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Job 20:22-23 Luke 12:19-21 Ps 49:17 Ps 73:4-5

Job 21:24²⁴his body well nourished, and the marrow of his bones moist.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Prov 3:8 Job 15:27 Ps 17:10

Job 21:25²⁵And another man dies in bitterness of soul, never having tasted anything good.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ezek 4:16-17 Job 7:11 1 Kgs 17:12 2 Sam 17:8 Eccl 6:2 Ezek 12:18 Isa 38:15-17 Job 10:1 Job 20:23 Job 3:20

Job 21:26²⁶Together they lie down in the dust, and worms cover over them both.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Eccl 9:2 Isa 14:11 Job 20:11 Job 3:18-19 Job 17:14 Job 19:26 Job 24:20 Ps 49:14

Job 21:27²⁷“Yes, I know what you are thinking, the schemes by which you would wrong me.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Luke 5:22 Ps 119:86 1 Pet 2:19 Job 15:20-35 Job 20:29 Job 20:5 Job 32:3 Job 4:8-11 Job 42:7 Job 5:3-5

Job 21:28²⁸For you say, ‘Where now is the nobleman’s house, and where are the tents in which the wicked lived?’Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Job 20:7 Job 8:22 Hab 2:9-11 Job 1:3 Job 31:37 Num 16:26-34 Ps 37:36 Ps 52:5-6 Zech 5:4

Job 21:29²⁹Have you never questioned those who travel the roads? Do you not recognize their accounts —Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 129:8

Job 21:30³⁰that the evil man is spared from the day of his misfortune, that he is delivered from the day of God’s wrath?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Prov 16:4 2 Pet 2:9-17 2 Pet 3:7 Job 20:28 Rom 2:5 Jude 1:13 Nah 1:2 Prov 11:4 Ps 110:5 Rev 6:17

Job 21:31³¹No one denounces his conduct to his face; no one repays him for what he has done.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 7:10 Gal 2:11 Rom 12:19 1 Kgs 21:19-24 2 Sam 12:7-12 Acts 24:25 Isa 59:13 Jas 2:13 Jer 2:33-35 Job 21:19

Job 21:32³²And when he is carried to the tombs, and watch is kept over the funeral mound,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Luke 16:22 Ezek 32:21-32 Ps 49:14

Job 21:33³³The clods of the torrent valley are sweet to him; behind him everybody follows in procession, and before him goes a countless throng.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Heb 9:27 Job 24:24 Job 30:23 Eccl 1:4 Eccl 12:7 Eccl 8:8 Gen 3:19 Job 17:16 Job 3:17-19 Job 3:22

Job 21:34³⁴So how can you console me with your futile words? Nothing is left of your answers but deception!”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Job 16:2 Job 13:4 Job 32:3 Job 42:7

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