Verse 6
Job 21:6
World English Bible
6
When I remember, I am troubled.
Horror takes hold of my flesh.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וְ/אִם זָכַ֥רְתִּי וְ/נִבְהָ֑לְתִּי וְ/אָחַ֥ז בְּ֝שָׂרִ֗/י פַּלָּצֽוּת
English Translation
And if I remembered and was troubled and grasped at my flesh in fear.
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Chapter 21 Context
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Then Job answered,
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“Listen diligently to my speech.
Let this be your consolation.
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Allow me, and I also will speak;
After I have spoken, mock on.
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As for me, is my complaint to man?
Why shouldn’t I be impatient?
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Look at me, and be astonished.
Lay your hand on your mouth.
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When I remember, I am troubled.
Horror takes hold of my flesh.
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“Why do the wicked live,
become old, yes, and grow mighty in power?
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Their child is established with them in their sight,
their offspring before their eyes.
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Their houses are safe from fear,
neither is the rod of God (Elohim) upon them.
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Their bulls breed without fail.
Their cows calve, and don’t miscarry.
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They send out their little ones like a flock.
Their children dance.
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They sing to the tambourine and harp,
and rejoice at the sound of the pipe.
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They spend their days in prosperity.
In an instant they go down to Sheol.
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They tell God (Elohim), ‘Depart from us,
for we don’t want to know about your ways.
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What is the Almighty, that we should serve him?
What profit should we have, if we pray to him?’
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Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand.
The counsel of the wicked is far from me.
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“How often is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out,
that their calamity comes on them,
that God...
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How often is it that they are as stubble before the wind,
as chaff that the storm carries away?
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You say, ‘God (Elohim) lays up his iniquity for his children.’
Let him recompense it to himself, tha...
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Let his own eyes see his destruction.
Let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
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For what does he care for his house after him,
when the number of his months is cut off?
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“Shall any teach God (Elohim) knowledge,
since he judges those who are high?
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One dies in his full strength,
being wholly at ease and quiet.
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His pails are full of milk.
The marrow of his bones is moistened.
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Another dies in bitterness of soul,
and never tastes of good.
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They lie down alike in the dust.
The worm covers them.
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“Behold, I know your thoughts,
the plans with which you would wrong me.
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For you say, ‘Where is the house of the prince?
Where is the tent in which the wicked lived?’
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Haven’t you asked wayfaring men?
Don’t you know their evidences,
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that the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity,
That they are led out to the day of wrath?
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Who shall declare his way to his face?
Who shall repay him what he has done?
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Yet he will be borne to the grave.
Men shall keep watch over the tomb.
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The clods of the valley shall be sweet to him.
All men shall draw after him,
as there were innumerab...
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So how can you comfort me with nonsense,
because in your answers there remains only falsehood?”
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