Job 21:9

A Conservative Version

Their houses are safe from fear, nor is the rod of God upon them.

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They are not in trouble as [other] men, nor are they plagued like [other] men.

Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his terror make me afraid.

How they have become a desolation in a moment! They are utterly consumed with terrors.

Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall chase him at his heels.

A sound of terrors is in his ears. In prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.

The tents of robbers prosper, and those who provoke God are secure. Into whose hand God brings [abundantly].

Their bull breeds, and does not fail. Their cow brings forth safely, and does not miscarry.

then I will visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes,