Job 21

Job 21:4

Is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled?

If I had only to do with man, in this my misery, and had no other to make my complaint unto, I had just reason to be utterly dejected; but now, I have a God to make my moan unto.

Job 21:6

Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh.

When I bethink myself of my own grievous calamity, and, on the contrary side, of the great and apparent prosperity of wicked men, I am so vexed and disquieted with the consideration hereof, that my very flesh trembleth.

Job 21:16

Lo, their good is not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

Yet, for all that, the prosperity of the wicked is not in their own hands, to continue at pleasure: no, they are in the power of that just God, who can crush them when he thinks good; and therefore far be it from me, notwithstanding all their outward peace and glory, to yield unto the ways of wickedness.

Job 21:19

God layeth up his iniquity for his children.

God reserveth the outward punishment of his iniquity, to be, besides his own person, inflicted upon his children after him.

Job 21:24

His breasts (or, pails) are full of milk, and his bones are moistened with marrow.

The udders of his cattle, and his pails, are full of milk; and his bones are strong, and his flesh firm and succulent; so as, both his outward estate and his body do exceedingly prosper and flourish.

Job 21:28

For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked?

Ye say in a secret scorn; Where is now the house of this great man, that hath borne himself as a prince amongst his neighbours; or what is become of this wicked man’s habitation? He pretended godliness, but this very desolation shows what he was.

Job 21:31

Who shall declare his way to his face? or who shall repay him what he hath done?

He is so great and imperious, that no man dares reprove him for his faults; or offer to punish him for his injuries done.

Job 21:33

The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, and every man shall draw after him, as there are innumerable before him.

He shall be glad to rest in the grave: and, by the law of nature, every man shall follow after him, in his own time, to that common receptacle of all flesh; as there are also innumerable gone thither before him.