Job 21
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Lutheran reading notes
In Job chapter 21, the wisdom literature continues to explore suffering, divine justice, and faithfulness amid trial. Lutheran interpretation often emphasizes humanity’s limitations and the need to rely on God's grace and promises. The chapter highlights the contrast between human striving and the faithfulness of God.
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But Job answered and said,
Job 21:1 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations.
Job 21:2 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on.
Job 21:3 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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As for me, {is} my complaint to man? and if {it were so}, why should not my spirit be troubled? {troubled: Heb. shortened?}
Job 21:4 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Mark me, and be astonished, and lay {your} hand upon {your} mouth. {Mark...: Heb. Look unto me}
Job 21:5 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh.
Job 21:6 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?
Job 21:7 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes.
Job 21:8 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Their houses {are} safe from fear, neither {is} the rod of God upon them. {safe...: Heb. peace from}
Job 21:9 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf.
Job 21:10 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.
Job 21:11 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ.
Job 21:12 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave. {in wealth: or, in mirth}
Job 21:13 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.
Job 21:14 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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What {is} the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?
Job 21:15 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Lo, their good {is} not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
Job 21:16 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and {how oft} cometh their destruction upon them! {God} distributeth sorrows in his anger. {candle: or, lamp}
Job 21:17 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away. {carrieth: Heb. stealeth}
Job 21:18 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know {it}. {his iniquity: that is, the punishment of his iniquity}
Job 21:19 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
Job 21:20 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For what pleasure {hath} he in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off in the midst?
Job 21:21 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Shall {any} teach God knowledge? seeing he judgeth those that are high.
Job 21:22 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet. {his...: Heb. his very, or, the strength of, his perfection}
Job 21:23 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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His breasts are full of milk, and his bones are moistened with marrow. {breasts: or, milk pails}
Job 21:24 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never eateth with pleasure.
Job 21:25 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them.
Job 21:26 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices {which} ye wrongfully imagine against me.
Job 21:27 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For ye say, Where {is} the house of the prince? and where {are} the dwelling places of the wicked? {the dwelling...: Heb. the tent of the tabernacles}
Job 21:28 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Have ye not asked them that go by the way? and do ye not know their tokens,
Job 21:29 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath. {wrath: Heb. wraths}
Job 21:30 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him {what} he hath done?
Job 21:31 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb. {grave: Heb. graves} {remain...: Heb. watch in the heap}
Job 21:32 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, and every man shall draw after him, as {there are} innumerable before him.
Job 21:33 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood? {falsehood: Heb. transgression?}
Job 21:34 highlights wisdom, prayer, and faithful living with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.