Job 21 | BSB Bible Study

Job 21:1 (BSB)
Then Job answered:

Job 21:2 (BSB)
“Listen carefully to my words; let this be your consolation to me.

Job 21:3 (BSB)
Bear with me while I speak; then, after I have spoken, you may go on mocking.

Job 21:4 (BSB)
Is my complaint against a man? Then why should I not be impatient?

Job 21:5 (BSB)
Look at me and be appalled; put your hand over your mouth.

Job 21:6 (BSB)
When I remember, terror takes hold, and my body trembles in horror.

Job 21:7 (BSB)
Why do the wicked live on, growing old and increasing in power?

Job 21:8 (BSB)
Their descendants are established around them, and their offspring before their eyes.

Job 21:9 (BSB)
Their homes are safe from fear; no rod of punishment from God is upon them.

Job 21:10 (BSB)
Their bulls breed without fail; their cows bear calves and do not miscarry.

Job 21:11 (BSB)
They send forth their little ones like a flock; their children skip about,

Job 21:12 (BSB)
singing to the tambourine and lyre and making merry at the sound of the flute.

Job 21:13 (BSB)
They spend their days in prosperity and go down to Sheol in peace.

Job 21:14 (BSB)
Yet they say to God: ‘Leave us alone! For we have no desire to know Your ways.

Job 21:15 (BSB)
Who is the Almighty, that we should serve Him, and what would we gain if we pray to Him?’

Job 21:16 (BSB)
Still, their prosperity is not in their own hands, so I stay far from the counsel of the wicked.

Job 21:17 (BSB)
How often is the lamp of the wicked put out? Does disaster come upon them? Does God, in His anger, apportion destruction?

Job 21:18 (BSB)
Are they like straw before the wind, like chaff swept away by a storm?

Job 21:19 (BSB)
It is said that God lays up one’s punishment for his children. Let God repay the man himself, so he will know it.

Job 21:20 (BSB)
Let his eyes see his own destruction; let him drink for himself the wrath of the Almighty.

Job 21:21 (BSB)
For what does he care about his household after him, when the number of his months has run out?

Job 21:22 (BSB)
Can anyone teach knowledge to God, since He judges those on high?

Job 21:23 (BSB)
One man dies full of vigor, completely secure and at ease.

Job 21:24 (BSB)
His body is well nourished, and his bones are rich with marrow.

Job 21:25 (BSB)
Yet another man dies in the bitterness of his soul, having never tasted prosperity.

Job 21:26 (BSB)
But together they lie down in the dust, and worms cover them both.

Job 21:27 (BSB)
Behold, I know your thoughts full well, the schemes by which you would wrong me.

Job 21:28 (BSB)
For you say, ‘Where now is the nobleman’s house, and where are the tents in which the wicked dwell?’

Job 21:29 (BSB)
Have you never asked those who travel the roads? Do you not accept their reports?

Job 21:30 (BSB)
Indeed, the evil man is spared from the day of calamity, delivered from the day of wrath.

Job 21:31 (BSB)
Who denounces his behavior to his face? Who repays him for what he has done?

Job 21:32 (BSB)
He is carried to the grave, and watch is kept over his tomb.

Job 21:33 (BSB)
The clods of the valley are sweet to him; everyone follows behind him, and those before him are without number.

Job 21:34 (BSB)
So how can you comfort me with empty words? For your answers remain full of falsehood.”

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