Job 21

Verse 1

WEB Then Job answered,

KJV But Job answered and said,

TSK No cross references.

Verse 2

WEB “Listen diligently to my speech. Let this be your consolation.

KJV Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations.

TSK Hear: job 13:3,4, job 18:2, job 33:1,31-33, job 34:2, jud 9:7, isa 55:2, heb 2:1; let this be: job 15:11, job 16:2

Verse 3

WEB Allow me, and I also will speak; After I have spoken, mock on.

KJV Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on.

TSK that I may: job 13:13, job 33:31-33; mock on: job 12:4,5, job 13:9, job 16:10,20, job 17:2

Verse 4

WEB As for me, is my complaint to man? Why shouldn’t I be impatient?

KJV As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled?

TSK is my complaint: job 7:11-21, job 10:1,2, 1sa 1:16, ps 22:1-3, ps 77:3-9, ps 102:1, ps 142:2,3, mt 26:38; if it were: 2ki 6:26,27, ps 42:11; troubled: ex 6:9

Verse 5

WEB Look at me, and be astonished. Lay your hand on your mouth.

KJV Mark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth.

TSK be astonished: job 2:12, job 17:8, job 19:20,21; lay your: job 29:9, job 40:4, jud 18:19, ps 39:9, pr 30:32, am 5:13, mic 7:16, ro 11:33

Verse 6

WEB When I remember, I am troubled. Horror takes hold of my flesh.

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

TSK Even when: ps 77:3, ps 88:15, ps 119:120, la 3:19,20, hab 3:16

Verse 7

WEB “Why do the wicked live, become old, yes, and grow mighty in power?

KJV Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?

TSK Wherefore: job 12:6, ps 17:10, ps 73:3-12, jer 12:1-3, hab 1:15,16; mighty: ps 37:35, da 4:17, re 13:2-7, re 17:2-4

Verse 8

WEB Their child is established with them in their sight, their offspring before their eyes.

KJV Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes.

TSK Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes.: job 5:3,4, job 18:19, job 20:10,28, pr 17:6

Verse 9

WEB Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them.

KJV Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them.

TSK safe from fear: job 15:21, job 18:11, ps 73:19, isa 57:19-21; the rod: job 9:34, ps 73:5

Verse 10

WEB Their bulls breed without fail. Their cows calve, and don’t miscarry.

KJV Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf.

TSK their cow: ex 23:26, de 7:13,14, de 28:11, ps 144:13,14, ec 9:1,2, lu 12:16-21, lu 16:19

Verse 11

WEB They send forth their little ones like a flock. Their children dance.

KJV They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.

TSK They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.: ps 107:41, ps 127:3-5

Verse 12

WEB They sing to the tambourine and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the pipe.

KJV They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ.

TSK They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ.: ge 4:21, ge 31:27, isa 5:12, isa 22:13, am 6:4-6

Verse 13

WEB They spend their days in prosperity. In an instant they go down to Sheol.

KJV They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.

TSK They: job 36:11, ps 73:4, mt 24:38,39, lu 12:19,20, lu 17:28,29

Verse 14

WEB They tell God, ‘Depart from us, for we don’t want to know about your ways.

KJV Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.

TSK they say: job 22:17, ps 10:4,11, lu 8:28,37, hab 1:15, joh 15:23,24, ro 8:7; for we: pr 1:7,22,29, joh 3:19,20, joh 8:45-47, ro 1:28, 2th 2:10-12, 2ti 4:3,4

Verse 15

WEB What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What profit should we have, if we pray to him?’

KJV What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?

TSK What is: ex 5:2, ps 12:4, pr 30:9, ho 13:6; and what: job 34:9, job 35:3, isa 30:11, mal 1:13,14; if we: isa 45:19, mt 7:7, joh 16:24

Verse 16

WEB Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand. The counsel of the wicked is far from me.

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

TSK Lo: job 1:21, job 12:9,10, ps 49:6,7, ps 52:5-7, ec 8:8, lu 16:2,25; the counsel: job 22:18, ge 49:6, ps 1:1, pr 1:10, pr 5:8

Verse 17

WEB “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?

KJV How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and how oft cometh their destruction upon them! God distributeth sorrows in his anger.

TSK oft: job 18:5,6,18, pr 13:9, pr 20:20, pr 24:20, mt 25:8; distributeth: ps 32:10, ps 90:7-9, lu 12:46, ro 2:8,9

Verse 18

WEB How often is it that they are as stubble before the wind, as chaff that the storm carries away?

KJV They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.

TSK as stubble: job 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 41:15,16, jer 13:24, ho 13:3, na 1:10, mt 3:12

Verse 19

WEB You say, ‘God lays up his iniquity for his children.’ Let him recompense it to himself, that he may know it.

KJV God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know it.

TSK layeth: job 22:24, de 32:34, mt 6:19,20, ro 2:5; iniquity: ge 4:7, isa 53:4-6, 2co 5:21; for his: ex 20:5, ps 109:9-31, isa 14:21, eze 18:14,19,20, mt 23:31-35; he rewardeth: de 32:41, 2sa 3:39, ps 54:5, mt 16:27, 2ti 4:14, re 18:6; he shall: mal 3:18

Verse 20

WEB Let his own eyes see his destruction. Let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.

KJV His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty.

TSK see: job 27:19, lu 16:23; drink: ps 75:8, isa 51:17, jer 25:15,16, jer 51:7, re 14:10, re 19:15

Verse 21

WEB For what does he care for his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off?

KJV For what pleasure hath he in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off in the midst?

TSK For what: job 14:21, ec 2:18,19, lu 16:27,28; the number: job 14:5, ps 55:23, ps 102:24

Verse 22

WEB “Shall any teach God knowledge, since he judges those who are high?

KJV Shall any teach God knowledge? seeing he judgeth those that are high.

TSK teach: job 40:2, isa 40:13,14, isa 45:9, ro 11:34, 1co 2:16; he judgeth: job 34:17-19, ps 113:5,6, ec 5:8, isa 40:22,23, 1co 6:3, 2pe 2:4, jude 1:6, re 20:1-3,12-15

Verse 23

WEB One dies in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.

KJV One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.

TSK in his full strength: job 20:22,23, ps 49:17, ps 73:4,5, lu 12:19-21

Verse 24

WEB His pails are full of milk. The marrow of his bones is moistened.

KJV His breasts are full of milk, and his bones are moistened with marrow.

TSK His breasts: job 15:27, ps 17:10; moistened: pr 3:8

Verse 25

WEB Another dies in bitterness of soul, and never tastes of good.

KJV And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never eateth with pleasure.

TSK in the bitterness: job 3:20, job 7:11, job 9:18, job 10:1, 2sa 17:8, pr 14:10, isa 38:15-17; never: job 20:23, 1ki 17:12, ec 6:2, eze 4:16,17, eze 12:18

Verse 26

WEB They lie down alike in the dust. The worm covers them.

KJV They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them.

TSK alike: job 3:18,19, job 20:11, ec 9:2; the worms: job 17:14, job 19:26, ps 49:14, isa 14:11

Verse 27

WEB “Behold, I know your thoughts, the devices with which you would wrong me.

KJV Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me.

TSK I know: job 4:8-11, job 5:3-5, job 8:3-6, job 15:20-35, job 20:5,29, lu 5:22; ye wrongfully: job 32:3, job 42:7, ps 59:4, ps 119:86, 1pe 2:19

Verse 28

WEB For you say, ‘Where is the house of the prince? Where is the tent in which the wicked lived?’

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

TSK Where: job 20:7, ps 37:36, ps 52:5,6, hab 2:9-11, zec 5:4; dwelling places: nu 16:26-34

Verse 29

WEB Haven’t you asked wayfaring men? Don’t you know their evidences,

KJV Have ye not asked them that go by the way? and do ye not know their tokens,

TSK go by: ps 129:8

Verse 30

WEB that the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity, That they are led forth to the day of wrath?

KJV That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.

TSK the wicked: pr 16:4, na 1:2, 2pe 2:9-17, 2pe 3:7, jude 1:13; day: job 20:28, ps 110:5, pr 11:4, zep 1:15, ro 2:5, re 6:17

Verse 31

WEB Who shall declare his way to his face? Who shall repay him what he has done?

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

TSK declare: 2sa 12:7-12, 1ki 21:19-24, ps 50:21, jer 2:33-35, mr 6:18, ac 24:25, ga 2:11; repay: job 21:19, job 41:11, de 7:10, isa 59:13, ro 12:19, jas 2:13

Verse 32

WEB Yet he will be borne to the grave. Men shall keep watch over the tomb.

KJV Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb.

TSK he be: ps 49:14, eze 32:21-32, lu 16:22

Verse 33

WEB The clods of the valley shall be sweet to him. All men shall draw after him, as there were innumerable before him.

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

TSK sweet: job 3:17,18; every man: job 30:23, ge 3:19, ec 1:4, ec 8:8, ec 12:7, heb 9:27

Verse 34

WEB So how can you comfort me with nonsense, because in your answers there remains only falsehood?”

KJV How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood?

TSK comfort: job 16:2; seeing: job 13:4, job 32:3, job 42:7