Berean Standard Bible
Job 21:1-16
1Then Job answered:
2“Listen carefully to my words;let this be your consolation to me.3Bear with me while I speak;then, after I have spoken, you may go on mocking.
4Is my complaint against a man?Then why should I not be impatient?5Look at me and be appalled;put your hand over your mouth.6When I remember, terror takes hold,and my body trembles in horror.7Why do the wicked live on,growing old and increasing in power?8Their descendants are established around them,and their offspring before their eyes.9Their homes are safe from fear;no rod of punishment from God is upon them.10Their bulls breed without fail;their cows bear calves and do not miscarry.11They send forth their little ones like a flock;their children skip about,12singing to the tambourine and lyreand making merry at the sound of the flute.13They spend their days in prosperityand go down to Sheol in peace.114Yet they say to God: ‘Leave us alone!For we have no desire to know Your ways.15Who is the Almighty, that we should serve Him,and what would we gain if we pray to Him?’16Still, their prosperity is not in their own hands,so I stay far from the counsel of the wicked.
Notes
- 1. Job 21:13 Or in an instant ↩
Commentaries on Job 21
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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