Cross References

Job 21:9

New International Reader's Version

Their homes are safe. They don’t have to be afraid. God isn’t punishing them.

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Why doesn’t anyone bother the tents of robbers? Why do those who make God angry remain secure? They are in God’s hands!

Terrifying sounds fill their ears. When everything seems to be going well, robbers attack them.

Terrors alarm them on every side. They follow them every step of the way.

Every time their bulls mate, their cows become pregnant. And the calves don’t die before they are born.

I wish someone would keep God from punishing me. Then his terror wouldn’t frighten me anymore.

It will happen very suddenly. A terrible death will take them away completely.

They don’t have the problems most people have. They don’t suffer as other people do.

Then I will punish them for their sins. I will strike them with a rod. I will whip them for their evil acts.