1 | Then Job answered, |
2 | "Listen diligently to my speech. Let this be your consolation. | Jb 13:3 Jb 13:4 Jb 18:2 Jb 33:1 Jb 33:31-33 Jb 34:2 Jg 9:7 Isa 55:2 Heb 2:1 |
3 | Allow me, and I also will speak; After I have spoken, mock on. | Jb 13:13 Jb 33:31-33 |
4 | As for me, is my complaint to man? Why shouldn`t I be impatient? | Jb 7:11-21 Jb 10:1 Jb 10:2 1Sa 1:16 Ps 22:1-3 Ps 77:3-9 Ps 102:1 Ps 142:2 Ps 142:3 Mt 26:38 |
5 | Look at me, and be astonished. Lay your hand on your mouth. | Jb 2:12 Jb 17:8 Jb 19:20 Jb 19:21 |
6 | When I remember, I am troubled. Horror takes hold of my flesh. | Ps 77:3 Ps 88:15 Ps 119:120 Lam 3:19 Lam 3:20 Hab 3:16 |
7 | "Why do the wicked live, Become old, yes, and grow mighty in power? | Jb 12:6 Ps 17:10 Ps 73:3-12 Jer 12:1-3 Hab 1:15 Hab 1:16 |
8 | Their child is established with them in their sight, Their offspring before their eyes. | Jb 5:3 Jb 5:4 Jb 18:19 Jb 20:10 Jb 20:28 Pr 17:6 |
9 | Their houses are safe from fear, Neither is the rod of God upon them. | Jb 15:21 Jb 18:11 Ps 73:19 Isa 57:19-21 |
10 | Their bulls breed without fail. Their cows calve, and don`t miscarry. | Ex 23:26 Dt 7:13 Dt 7:14 Dt 28:11 Ps 144:13 Ps 144:14 Ec 9:1 Ec 9:2 Lk 12:16-21 Lk 16:19 |
11 | They send forth their little ones like a flock. Their children dance. | Ps 107:41 Ps 127:3-5 |
12 | They sing to the tambourine and harp, And rejoice at the sound of the pipe. | Gn 4:21 Gn 31:27 Isa 5:12 Isa 22:13 Am 6:4-6 |
13 | They spend their days in prosperity. In an instant they go down to Sheol. | Jb 36:11 Ps 73:4 Mt 24:38 Mt 24:39 Lk 12:19 Lk 12:20 Lk 17:28 Lk 17:29 |
14 | They tell God, `Depart from us, For we don`t want to know about your ways. | Jb 22:17 Ps 10:4 Ps 10:11 Lk 8:28 Lk 8:37 Hab 1:15 Jn 15:23 Jn 15:24 Ro 8:7 |
15 | What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What profit should we have, if we pray to him?` | Ex 5:2 Ps 12:4 Pr 30:9 Hos 13:6 |
16 | Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand: The counsel of the wicked is far from me. | Jb 1:21 Jb 12:9 Jb 12:10 Ps 49:6 Ps 49:7 Ps 52:5-7 Ec 8:8 Lk 16:2 Lk 16:25 |
17 | "How often is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out? That their calamity comes on them? That God distributes sorrows in his anger? | Jb 18:5 Jb 18:6 Jb 18:18 Pr 13:9 Pr 20:20 Pr 24:20 Mt 25:8 |
18 | That they are as stubble before the wind, As chaff that the storm carries away? | Jb 13:25 Ex 15:7 Ps 1:4 Ps 35:5 Ps 83:13 Isa 5:24 Isa 17:13 Isa 29:5 Isa 40:24 Isa 41:15 Isa 41:16 Jer 13:24 Hos 13:3 Nah 1:10 Mt 3:12 |
19 | You say, `God lays up his iniquity for his children.` Let him recompense it to himself, that he may know it. | Jb 22:24 Dt 32:34 Mt 6:19 Mt 6:20 Ro 2:5 |
20 | Let his own eyes see his destruction. Let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty. | Jb 27:19 Lk 16:23 |
21 | For what does he care for his house after him, When the number of his months is cut off? | Jb 14:21 Ec 2:18 Ec 2:19 Lk 16:27 Lk 16:28 |
22 | "Shall any teach God knowledge, Seeing he judges those who are high? | Jb 40:2 Isa 40:13 Isa 40:14 Isa 45:9 Ro 11:34 1Co 2:16 |
23 | One dies in his full strength, Being wholly at ease and quiet. | Jb 20:22 Jb 20:23 Ps 49:17 Ps 73:4 Ps 73:5 Lk 12:19-21 |
24 | His pails are full of milk. The marrow of his bones is moistened. | Jb 15:27 Ps 17:10 |
25 | Another dies in bitterness of soul, And never tastes of good. | Jb 3:20 Jb 7:11 Jb 9:18 Jb 10:1 2Sa 17:8 Pr 14:10 Isa 38:15-17 |
26 | They lie down alike in the dust, The worm covers them. | Jb 3:18 Jb 3:19 Jb 20:11 Ec 9:2 |
27 | "Behold, I know your thoughts, The devices with which you would wrong me. | Jb 4:8-11 Jb 5:3-5 Jb 8:3-6 Jb 15:20-35 Jb 20:5 Jb 20:29 Lk 5:22 |
28 | For you say, `Where is the house of the prince? Where is the tent in which the wicked lived?` | Jb 20:7 Ps 37:36 Ps 52:5 Ps 52:6 Hab 2:9-11 Zc 5:4 |
29 | Haven`t you asked wayfaring men? Don`t you know their evidences, | Ps 129:8 |
30 | That the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity? That they are led forth to the day of wrath? | Pr 16:4 Nah 1:2 2Pe 2:9-17 2Pe 3:7 Jud 1:13 |
31 | Who shall declare his way to his face? Who shall repay him what he has done? | 2Sa 12:7-12 1Ki 21:19-24 Ps 50:21 Jer 2:33-35 Mk 6:18 Ac 24:25 Ga 2:11 |
32 | Yet shall he be borne to the grave, Men shall keep watch over the tomb. | Ps 49:14 Ezk 32:21-32 Lk 16:22 |
33 | The clods of the valley shall be sweet to him. All men shall draw after him, As there were innumerable before him. | Jb 3:17 Jb 3:18 |
34 | So how can you comfort me with nonsense, Seeing that in your answers there remains only falsehood?" | Jb 16:2 |