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Job Chapter 21

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Job

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In this chapter God confronts Job, saying that his ways are like the wind and that he cannot understand God’s paths. The passage highlights the limits of human knowledge and the need to trust in divine wisdom.

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(1) But Job answered and said,
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Job 1:5Job 42:8

(2) Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations.
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Job 13:3Job 13:4Job 18:2Job 33:1Job 33:31Job 33:32Job 33:33Job 34:2Judges 9:7Isaiah 55:2Hebrews 2:1Job 15:11

(3) Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on.
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Job 13:13Job 33:31Job 33:32Job 33:33Job 12:4Job 12:5Job 13:9Job 16:10Job 16:20Job 17:2

(4) As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled?
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Job 7:11Job 7:12Job 7:13Job 7:14Job 7:15Job 7:16Job 7:17Job 7:18Job 7:19Job 7:20Job 7:21Job 10:1

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I Samuel 1:8Luke 24:38

(5) Mark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth.
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Job 2:12Job 17:8Job 19:20Job 19:21Job 29:9Job 40:4Judges 18:19Psalms 39:9Proverbs 30:32Amos 5:13Micah 7:16Romans 11:33

(6) Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh.
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Psalms 77:3Psalms 88:15Psalms 119:120Lamentations 3:19Lamentations 3:20Habakkuk 3:16

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Jeremiah 42:11Ezekiel 2:6Leviticus 26:42

(7) Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?
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Job 12:6Psalms 17:10Psalms 73:3Psalms 73:4Psalms 73:5Psalms 73:6Psalms 73:7Psalms 73:8Psalms 73:9Psalms 73:10Psalms 73:11Psalms 73:12

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Daniel 8:24Romans 14:8II Corinthians 13:4Galatians 2:20Ephesians 1:19

(8) Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes.
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Job 5:3Job 5:4Job 18:19Job 20:10Job 20:28Proverbs 17:6

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Genesis 26:4Isaiah 61:9Jeremiah 33:26

(9) Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them.
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Job 15:21Job 18:11Psalms 73:19Isaiah 57:19Isaiah 57:20Isaiah 57:21Job 9:34Psalms 73:5

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Exodus 10:6Numbers 17:6Jeremiah 19:13

(10) Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf.
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Exodus 23:26Deuteronomy 7:13Deuteronomy 7:14Deuteronomy 28:11Psalms 144:13Psalms 144:14Ecclesiastes 9:1Ecclesiastes 9:2Luke 12:16Luke 12:17Luke 12:18Luke 12:19

(11) They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.
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Psalms 107:41Psalms 127:3Psalms 127:4Psalms 127:5

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Ezekiel 34:8Genesis 38:17Ezekiel 34:10Zechariah 11:7Genesis 43:8Proverbs 6:10

(12) They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ.
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Genesis 4:21Genesis 31:27Isaiah 5:12Isaiah 22:13Amos 6:4Amos 6:5Amos 6:6

(13) They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.
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Job 36:11Psalms 73:4Matthew 24:38Matthew 24:39Luke 12:19Luke 12:20Luke 17:28Luke 17:29

(14) Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.
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Job 22:17Psalms 10:4Psalms 10:11Luke 8:28Luke 8:37Habakkuk 1:15John 15:23John 15:24Romans 8:7Proverbs 1:7Proverbs 1:22Proverbs 1:29

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Lamentations 4:15

(15) What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?
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Exodus 5:2Psalms 12:4Proverbs 30:9Hosea 13:6Job 34:9Job 35:3Isaiah 30:11Malachi 1:13Malachi 1:14Isaiah 45:19Matthew 7:7John 16:24

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Joshua 24:15Judges 9:28

(16) Lo, their good is not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
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Job 1:21Job 12:9Job 12:10Psalms 49:6Psalms 49:7Psalms 52:5Psalms 52:6Psalms 52:7Ecclesiastes 8:8Luke 16:2Luke 16:25Job 22:18

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II Samuel 17:14

(17) How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and how oft cometh their destruction upon them! God distributeth sorrows in his anger.
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Job 18:5Job 18:6Job 18:18Proverbs 13:9Proverbs 20:20Proverbs 24:20Matthew 25:8Psalms 32:10Psalms 90:7Psalms 90:8Psalms 90:9Luke 12:46

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Proverbs 1:27Jeremiah 46:20Hebrews 6:7

(18) They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.
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Job 13:25Exodus 15:7Psalms 1:4Psalms 35:5Psalms 83:13Isaiah 5:24Isaiah 17:13Isaiah 29:5Isaiah 40:24Isaiah 41:15Isaiah 41:16Jeremiah 13:24

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I Kings 19:11Job 27:21

(19) God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know it.
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Job 22:24Deuteronomy 32:34Matthew 6:19Matthew 6:20Romans 2:5Genesis 4:7Isaiah 53:4Isaiah 53:5Isaiah 53:6II Corinthians 5:21Exodus 20:5Psalms 109:9

(20) His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
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Job 27:19Luke 16:23Psalms 75:8Isaiah 51:17Jeremiah 25:15Jeremiah 25:16Jeremiah 51:7Revelation 14:10Revelation 19:15

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Romans 9:22

(21) For what pleasure hath he in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off in the midst?
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Job 14:21Ecclesiastes 2:18Ecclesiastes 2:19Luke 16:27Luke 16:28Job 14:5Psalms 55:23Psalms 102:24

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Revelation 13:18Esther 2:12

(22) Shall any teach God knowledge? seeing he judgeth those that are high.
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Job 40:2Isaiah 40:13Isaiah 40:14Isaiah 45:9Romans 11:34I Corinthians 2:16Job 34:17Job 34:18Job 34:19Psalms 113:5Psalms 113:6Ecclesiastes 5:8

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Hosea 4:6

(23) One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.
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Job 20:22Job 20:23Psalms 49:17Psalms 73:4Psalms 73:5Luke 12:19Luke 12:20Luke 12:21

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Jeremiah 46:28

(24) His breasts are full of milk, and his bones are moistened with marrow.
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Job 15:27Psalms 17:10Proverbs 3:8

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Jeremiah 8:1II Samuel 21:13II Kings 23:18

(25) And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never eateth with pleasure.
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Job 3:20Job 7:11Job 9:18Job 10:1II Samuel 17:8Proverbs 14:10Isaiah 38:15Isaiah 38:16Isaiah 38:17Job 20:23I Kings 17:12Ecclesiastes 6:2

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Romans 14:3Romans 14:6

(26) They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them.
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Job 3:18Job 3:19Job 20:11Ecclesiastes 9:2Job 17:14Job 19:26Psalms 49:14Isaiah 14:11

(27) Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me.
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Job 4:8Job 4:9Job 4:10Job 4:11Job 5:3Job 5:4Job 5:5Job 8:3Job 8:4Job 8:5Job 8:6Job 15:20

(28) For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked?
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Job 20:7Psalms 37:36Psalms 52:5Psalms 52:6Habakkuk 2:9Habakkuk 2:10Habakkuk 2:11Zechariah 5:4Numbers 16:26Numbers 16:27Numbers 16:28Numbers 16:29

(29) Have ye not asked them that go by the way? and do ye not know their tokens,
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Psalms 129:8

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I Kings 3:11II Chronicles 1:11

(30) That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.
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Proverbs 16:4Nahum 1:2II Peter 2:9II Peter 2:10II Peter 2:11II Peter 2:12II Peter 2:13II Peter 2:14II Peter 2:15II Peter 2:16II Peter 2:17II Peter 3:7

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Romans 9:22

(31) Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him what he hath done?
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II Samuel 12:7II Samuel 12:8II Samuel 12:9II Samuel 12:10II Samuel 12:11II Samuel 12:12I Kings 21:19I Kings 21:20I Kings 21:21I Kings 21:22I Kings 21:23I Kings 21:24

(32) Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb.
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Psalms 49:14Ezekiel 32:21Ezekiel 32:22Ezekiel 32:23Ezekiel 32:24Ezekiel 32:25Ezekiel 32:26Ezekiel 32:27Ezekiel 32:28Ezekiel 32:29Ezekiel 32:30Ezekiel 32:31

(33) The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, and every man shall draw after him, as there are innumerable before him.
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Job 3:17Job 3:18Job 30:23Genesis 3:19Ecclesiastes 1:4Ecclesiastes 8:8Ecclesiastes 12:7Hebrews 9:27

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Joshua 15:8Joshua 18:16

(34) How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood?
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Job 16:2Job 13:4Job 32:3Job 42:7

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