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Job 21:12

Verse 12 of 34. The 21st of 42 chapters in Job, in Poetry and Wisdom.

8Their child is established with them in their sight, their offspring before their eyes.

9Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them.

10Their bulls breed without fail. Their cows calve, and don’t miscarry.

11They send out their little ones like a flock. Their children dance.

12They sing to the tambourine and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the pipe.

13They spend their days in prosperity. In an instant they go down to Sheol.

14They tell God, ‘Depart from us, for we don’t want to know about your ways.

15What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What profit should we have, if we pray to him?’

16Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand. The counsel of the wicked is far from me.

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World English Bible. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.