Job 21, sung word for word in more than 20 music styles, with the words on screen. Free. Choose a style and a voice to play it.
1 -Then Job answered:
2 -“Listen carefully to my words; let this be your consolation to me.
3 -Bear with me while I speak; then, after I have spoken, you may go on mocking.
4 -Is my complaint against a man? Then why should I not be impatient?
5 -Look at me and be appalled; put your hand over your mouth.
6 -When I remember, terror takes hold, and my body trembles in horror.
7 -Why do the wicked live on, growing old and increasing in power?
8 -Their descendants are established around them, and their offspring before their eyes.
9 -Their homes are safe from fear; no rod of punishment from God is upon them.
10 -Their bulls breed without fail; their cows bear calves and do not miscarry.
11 -They send forth their little ones like a flock; their children skip about,
12 -singing to the tambourine and lyre and making merry at the sound of the flute.
13 -They spend their days in prosperity and go down to Sheol in peace.
14 -Yet they say to God: ‘Leave us alone! For we have no desire to know Your ways.
15 -Who is the Almighty, that we should serve Him, and what would we gain if we pray to Him?’
16 -Still, their prosperity is not in their own hands, so I stay far from the counsel of the wicked.
17 -How often is the lamp of the wicked put out? Does disaster come upon them? Does God, in His anger, apportion destruction?
18 -Are they like straw before the wind, like chaff swept away by a storm?
19 -It is said that God lays up one’s punishment for his children. Let God repay the man himself, so he will know it.
20 -Let his eyes see his own destruction; let him drink for himself the wrath of the Almighty.
21 -For what does he care about his household after him, when the number of his months has run out?
22 -Can anyone teach knowledge to God, since He judges those on high?
23 -One man dies full of vigor, completely secure and at ease.
24 -His body is well nourished, and his bones are rich with marrow.
25 -Yet another man dies in the bitterness of his soul, having never tasted prosperity.
26 -But together they lie down in the dust, and worms cover them both.
27 -Behold, I know your thoughts full well, the schemes by which you would wrong me.
28 -For you say, ‘Where now is the nobleman’s house, and where are the tents in which the wicked dwell?’
29 -Have you never asked those who travel the roads? Do you not accept their reports?
30 -Indeed, the evil man is spared from the day of calamity, delivered from the day of wrath.
31 -Who denounces his behavior to his face? Who repays him for what he has done?
32 -He is carried to the grave, and watch is kept over his tomb.
33 -The clods of the valley are sweet to him; everyone follows behind him, and those before him are without number.
34 -So how can you comfort me with empty words? For your answers remain full of falsehood.”
(Berean Standard Bible)
