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Job 21 Summary
Job Challenges the Prosperity of the Wicked
Job asks his friends to hear him carefully and then judge. He observes that the wicked often live long, prosperous lives with secure families, abundant flocks, and joyful children who play music and dance in wealth, yet they tell God to depart from them. Though some wicked die in their full strength while others die in bitterness, all alike lie down in dust covered by worms. Job points out that his friends cannot comfort him with false claims about the wicked's downfall, as he knows from travelers that the wicked are reserved for the day of destruction.
Key themes
Key verses
Job 21:7-8
“Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?”
Job 21:13-14
“They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.”
Job 21:26
“They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them.”
Job 21:34
“How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood?”
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