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Job's Seventh Speech: A Response to Zophar
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# Chapter 21
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1. Then Job spoke again:
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2. "Listen closely to what I am saying.
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That's one consolation you can give me.
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3. Bear with me, and let me speak.
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After I have spoken, you may resume mocking me.
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4. "My complaint is with God, not with people.
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I have good reason to be so impatient.
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5. Look at me and be stunned.
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Put your hand over your mouth in shock.
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6. When I think about what I am saying, I shudder.
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My body trembles.
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7. "Why do the wicked prosper,
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growing old and powerful?
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8. They live to see their children grow up and settle down,
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and they enjoy their grandchildren.
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9. Their homes are safe from every fear,
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and God does not punish them.
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10. Their bulls never fail to breed.
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Their cows bear calves and never miscarry.
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11. They let their children frisk about like lambs.
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Their little ones skip and dance.
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12. They sing with tambourine and harp.
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They celebrate to the sound of the flute.
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13. They spend their days in prosperity,
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then go down to the grave in peace.
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14. And yet they say to God, 'Go away.
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We want no part of you and your ways.
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15. Who is the Almighty, and why should we obey him?
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What good will it do us to pray?'
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16. (They think their prosperity is of their own doing,
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but I will have nothing to do with that kind of thinking.)
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17. "Yet the light of the wicked never seems to be extinguished.
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Do they ever have trouble?
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Does God distribute sorrows to them in anger?
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18. Are they driven before the wind like straw?
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Are they carried away by the storm like chaff?
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Not at all!
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19. "'Well,' you say, 'at least God will punish their children!'
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But I say he should punish the ones who sin,
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so that they understand his judgment.
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20. Let them see their destruction with their own eyes.
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Let them drink deeply of the anger of the Almighty.
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21. For they will not care what happens to their family
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after they are dead.
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22. "But who can teach a lesson to God,
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since he judges even the most powerful?
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23. One person dies in prosperity,
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completely comfortable and secure,
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24. the picture of good health,
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vigorous and fit.
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25. Another person dies in bitter poverty,
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never having tasted the good life.
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26. But both are buried in the same dust,
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both eaten by the same maggots.
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27. "Look, I know what you're thinking.
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I know the schemes you plot against me.
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28. You will tell me of rich and wicked people
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whose houses have vanished because of their sins.
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29. But ask those who have been around,
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and they will tell you the truth.
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30. Evil people are spared in times of calamity
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and are allowed to escape disaster.
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31. No one criticizes them openly
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or pays them back for what they have done.
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32. When they are carried to the grave,
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an honor guard keeps watch at their tomb.
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33. A great funeral procession goes to the cemetery.
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Many pay their respects as the body is laid to rest,
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and the earth gives sweet repose.
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34. "How can your empty clichés comfort me?
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All your explanations are lies!"
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