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Job 21:27-34

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27 Look, I know your thoughts; your plans harm me.
27 “I know full well what you are thinking, the schemes by which you would wrong me.
28 You say, "Where is the official's house? Where is the tent, the dwelling of the wicked?"
28 You say, ‘Where now is the house of the great, the tents where the wicked lived?’
29 Haven't you asked travelers or paid attention to their reports?
29 Have you never questioned those who travel? Have you paid no regard to their accounts—
30 On the day of disaster the wicked are spared; on the day of fury they are rescued.
30 that the wicked are spared from the day of calamity, that they are delivered from the day of wrath?
31 Who can criticize their behavior to their faces; they act, and who can avenge them?
31 Who denounces their conduct to their face? Who repays them for what they have done?
32 They are carried to their graves; someone keeps guard over their tombs.
32 They are carried to the grave, and watch is kept over their tombs.
33 The soil near the desert streambed is sweet to them; everyone marches after them— those before them, beyond counting.
33 The soil in the valley is sweet to them; everyone follows after them, and a countless throng goes before them.
34 How empty is your comfort to me; only deceit remains in your responses.
34 “So how can you console me with your nonsense? Nothing is left of your answers but falsehood!”
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