These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
BIBLES
King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
Job 21
Tanakh 34 verses
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Hear diligently my speech; And let this be your consolations.
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Suffer me, that I may speak; And after that I have spoken, mock on.
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- 4 As for me, is my complaint to man? Or why should I not be impatient?
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Turn unto me, and be astonished, And lay your hand upon your mouth.
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Even when I I am affrighted, And horror hath taketh hold on my .
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- 7 Wherefore do the wicked live, Become old, yea, wax mighty in power?
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Their seed is established in their sight with them, And their offspring before their eyes.
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Their houses are safe, without , Neither is the rod of upon them.
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Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; Their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf.
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They send forth their little ones like a flock, And their children dance.
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They sing to the timbrel and harp, And rejoice at the sound of the pipe.
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They spend their days in prosperity, And peacefully they go down to the grave.
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- 14 Yet they said unto : ‘Depart from us; For we desire not the knowledge of Thy ways.
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What is the Almighty, that we should Him? And what profit should we have, if we pray unto Him?’—
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- 16 Lo, their prosperity is not in their hand; The counsel of the wicked is far from me.
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How oft is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out? That their calamity cometh upon them? That He distributeth pains in His anger?
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- 18 That they are as stubble before the wind, And as chaff that the storm stealeth away?
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layeth up his iniquity for his children!’—Let Him recompense it unto himself, that he may it.
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Exodus 20:5 Jeremiah 31:29 2 Corinthians 5:21 2 Samuel 3:39 Psalm 54:5 Isaiah 14:21 Romans 2:5 Matthew 23:31-35 2 Timothy 4:14 Matthew 6:19-20 Psalm 109:9-31 Deuteronomy 32:34 Ezekiel 18:19-20 Revelation 18:6 Ezekiel 18:2 Matthew 16:27 Job 22:24 Isaiah 53:4-6 Genesis 4:7 Deuteronomy 32:41 Ezekiel 18:14 Malachi 3:18 -
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Let his own eyes see his destruction, And let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
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For what pleasure hath he in his house after him? Seeing the number of his months is determined.
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- 22 Shall any teach knowledge? Seeing it is He that judgeth those that are high.
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One dieth in his full strength, Being wholly at ease and quiet;
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His pails are full of milk, And the marrow of his bones is moistened.
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- 25 And another dieth in bitterness of , And hath never tasted of good.
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They lie down alike in the dust, And the worm covereth them.
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Behold, I your thoughts, And the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me.
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For ye say: ‘Where is the house of the prince? And where is the tent wherein the wicked dwelt?’
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Have ye not asked them that go by the way; And will ye misdeem their tokens,
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That the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity, That they are led forth to the day of wrath?
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- 31 But who shall declare his way to his ? And who shall repay him what he hath done?
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For he is borne to the grave, And watch is kept over his tomb.
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The clods of the valley are sweet unto him, And all men draw after him, As there were innumerable before him.
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- 34 How then comfort ye me in vain? And as for your answers, there remaineth only faithlessness?