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## Job 21:17-34 in Context (Verses 14–34 KJV)
 
 [14 ](/kjv/job/21/14) Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.
 
 [15 ](/kjv/job/21/15) What *is* the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?
 
 [16 ](/kjv/job/21/16) Lo, their good *is* not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
 
 [17 ](/kjv/job/21/17) How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and *how oft* cometh their destruction upon them! *God* distributeth sorrows in his anger.*
 
 [18 ](/kjv/job/21/18) They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.*
 
 [19 ](/kjv/job/21/19) God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know *it*.*
 
 [20 ](/kjv/job/21/20) His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
 
 [21 ](/kjv/job/21/21) For what pleasure *hath* he in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off in the midst?
 
 [22 ](/kjv/job/21/22) Shall *any* teach God knowledge? seeing he judgeth those that are high.
 
 [23 ](/kjv/job/21/23) One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.*
 
 [24 ](/kjv/job/21/24) His breasts are full of milk, and his bones are moistened with marrow.*
 
 [25 ](/kjv/job/21/25) And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never eateth with pleasure.
 
 [26 ](/kjv/job/21/26) They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them.
 
 [27 ](/kjv/job/21/27) Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices *which* ye wrongfully imagine against me.
 
 [28 ](/kjv/job/21/28) For ye say, Where *is* the house of the prince? and where *are* the dwelling places of the wicked?*
 
 [29 ](/kjv/job/21/29) Have ye not asked them that go by the way? and do ye not know their tokens,
 
 [30 ](/kjv/job/21/30) That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.*
 
 [31 ](/kjv/job/21/31) Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him *what* he hath done?
 
 [32 ](/kjv/job/21/32) Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb.**
 
 [33 ](/kjv/job/21/33) The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, and every man shall draw after him, as *there are* innumerable before him.
 
 [34 ](/kjv/job/21/34) How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood?*
 
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