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UST JOB Chapter 21

JOB 21 ©

21Then Job replied to Zophar and the others. He said,

2“Please listen carefully to what I say.

That is something that you can do to comfort me.

3Be patient with me, and allow me to speak.

Then, after I have finished speaking,

you can continue to make fun of me if you wish, although I hope you will not.

4I am not protesting to people about my suffering, I am protesting to God!

And so it is certainly acceptable for me to be impatient!

5If you consider my situation, it will shock you.

That should make you put your hands over your mouths and say no more!

6When I think about what has happened to me,

I am frightened and my entire body shakes.

7I do not understand why wicked people live long lives

and become very powerful.

8They live to see their children grow up

and start their own households nearby.

9Wicked people live safely in their homes without being afraid.

God does not punish them.

10Their bulls mate with their cows successfully.

Their cows give birth to calves. They do not miscarry.

11Wicked people are able to send their young children outside to play without worrying about what will happen to them.

Their children dance playfully.

12The children play tambourines and lyres as they sing,

and they also play flutes happily.

13Wicked people enjoy having good things while they are alive,

and then they die peacefully and go to the place where dead people go.

14While they are alive, they say to God, ‘Leave us alone;

we do not care about how you want us to live our lives!’

15Those wicked people also say, ‘It does not matter whether we worship Shaddai.

We would not get any advantage by praying to him.’

16Wicked people wrongly think that they have become prosperous because of what they have done.

I want to think completely differently from the way they think.

17It often happens that wicked people die

without experiencing any disasters.

I do not think that God actually becomes angry with them and punishes them.

18God does not destroy them like straw that the wind blows away.

It is never as if a whirlwind carries them off.

19You say, ‘When people have committed sins,

God remembers and punishes their children for those sins.’

I say that God should punish the people who sin, not their children.

That way sinners will know that God is punishing them for their own sins.

20Wicked people should have the experience of God destroying them.

They should know what it is like for Shaddai to punish them in his wrath.

21After all, once wicked people die,

they are no longer concerned for their families who are still alive.

22Since God judges everyone, even those who are in heaven,

no one can teach him anything.

23Some people die while they are still very healthy.

They die when their lives are peaceful and they are not afraid that bad things will happen to them.

24Their bodies are fat.

Their bones are strong.

25Other people are very miserable when they die.

They die before good things have happened to them.

26Both kinds of people die, and other people bury them.

Their bodies all decompose.

Everyone dies, so it is clear that dying is not always the punishment for being wicked.

27Listen, I know what you three are thinking about me.

You are wrongly applying to me things that are true about wicked people.

28I know you are wrong because you say, ‘God does not allow evil rulers to keep living!

God does not allow wicked people to keep living!’

29If you want to know what life on earth is really like, you should ask people who travel much and see many things.

You will have to admit that the things they see and describe show what life is really like.

30Travelers will report that wicked people do not suffer when there are great disasters.

They will report that wicked people escape from God’s punishment.

31No one dares to accuse wicked people openly of doing wrong.

No one punishes them for the evil things they have done.

32When wicked people die, others carry their bodies to their graves in a solemn procession.

Then people guard their graves to protect them.

33It would please wicked people to see how others build mounds over their graves to honor them.

It would also please them to see how many people take part in their funeral processions.

Many people walk in front of their bodies and many others walk behind them.

34Since all of this is true about wicked people, what you have been telling me does not make sense, and it has not comforted me.

You have been trying to answer me by telling me things that are not true!”

JOB 21 ©

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