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The bow of brass shall strike him through.

²⁵He draweth it forth, and it cometh out of his body;

Yea, the glittering point cometh out of his gall;

Terrors are upon him.

²⁶All darkness is laid up for his treasures;

A fire not blown by man shall consume him;

It shall go ill with him that is left in his tent.

²⁷The heavens shall reveal his iniquity,

And the earth shall rise up against him.

²⁸The increase of his house shall depart,

His goods shall flow away in the day of his wrath.

²⁹This is the portion of a wicked man from God,

And the heritage appointed unto him by God.

21 Then Job answered and said:

²Hear diligently my speech;

And let this be your consolations.

³Suffer me, that I may speak;

And after that I have spoken, mock on.

⁴As for me, is my complaint to man?

Or why should I not be impatient?

⁵Turn unto me, and be astonished,

And lay your hand upon your mouth.

⁶Even when I remember I am affrighted,

And horror hath taketh hold on my flesh.

⁷Wherefore do the wicked live,

Become old, yea, wax mighty in power?

⁸Their seed is established in their sight with them,

And their offspring before their eyes.

⁹Their houses are safe, without fear,

Neither is the rod of God upon them.

¹⁰Their bull gendereth, and faileth not;

Their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf.

¹¹They send forth their little ones like a flock,

And their children dance.

¹²They sing to the timbrel and harp,

And rejoice at the sound of the pipe.

¹³They spend their days in prosperity,

And peacefully they go down to the grave.

¹⁴Yet they said unto God: 'Depart from us;

For we desire not the knowledge of Thy ways.

¹⁵What is the Almighty, that we should serve Him?

And what profit should we have, if we pray unto Him?'—

¹⁶Lo, their prosperity is not in their hand;

The counsel of the wicked is far from me.

 

¹⁷How 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?

¹⁸That they are as stubble before the wind,

And as chaff that the storm stealeth away?

¹⁹'God layeth up his iniquity for his children! '—

Let Him recompense it unto himself, that he may know it.

²⁰Let his own eyes see his destruction,

And let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.

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