The Book of Job, Chapter 21 summary
Chapter 21 of 42 · 3 min to read the chapter
In Chapter 21, Job asks his listeners to hear him and describes wicked people whose families flourish while they reject God. He contrasts comfortable and bitter lives that both end in death, demands punishment for offenders themselves rather than their children, and rejects his listeners’ answers as false comfort.
What happens
- Job asks for careful attention before further mockery and describes the fear that grips him.
- He describes wicked people enjoying long lives, secure households, thriving livestock, and joyful children while refusing to serve God.
- Job calls for the wicked themselves to face punishment rather than having their guilt stored up for their children.
- He contrasts a secure man with a bitter man and says both lie in dust beneath worms.
- Job challenges his listeners’ accusations, describes the wicked reaching the grave, and rejects their comfort as false.
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