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Job 21
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1But Job answered and said,
1Then Job answered,
2Hear you⌃, hear you⌃ my words, that I may not have this consolation from you.
2“Listen diligently to my speech. Let this be your consolation.
3Raise me, and I will speak; then you⌃ shall not laugh me to scorn.
3Allow me, and I also will speak. After I have spoken, mock on.
4What! is my reproof of man? and why should I not be angry?
4As for me, is my complaint to man? Why shouldn’t I be impatient?
5Look upon me, and wonder, laying your hand upon your cheek.
5Look at me, and be astonished. Lay your hand on your mouth.
6For even when I remember, I am alarmed, and pains seize my flesh.
6When I remember, I am troubled. Horror takes hold of my flesh.
7Therefore do the ungodly live, and grow old even in wealth?
7“Why do the wicked live, become old, yes, and grow mighty in power?
8Their seed is according to [their] desire, and their children are in [their] sight.
8Their child is established with them in their sight, their offspring before their eyes.
9Their houses are prosperous, neither [have they] any where [cause for] fear, neither is there a scourge from the Lord upon them.
9Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them.
10Their cow does not cast her calf, and their [beast] with young is safe, and does not miscarry.
10Their bulls breed without fail. Their cows calve, and don’t miscarry.
11And they remain as an unfailing flock, and their children play before [them], taking up the lute and harp;
11They send out their little ones like a flock. Their children dance.
12and they rejoice at the voice of a song.
12They sing to the tambourine and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the pipe.
13And they spend their days in wealth, and fall asleep in the rest of the grave.
13They spend their days in prosperity. In an instant they go down to Sheol.
14Yet [such a man] says to the Lord, Depart from me; I desire not to know your ways.
14They tell God, ‘Depart from us, for we don’t want to know about your ways.
15What is the Mighty One, that we should serve him? and what profit is there that we should approach him?
15What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What profit should we have, if we pray to him?’
16For their good things were in [their] hands, but he regards not the works of the ungodly.
16Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand. The counsel of the wicked is far from me.
17Nevertheless, the lamp of the ungodly also shall be put out, and destruction shall come upon them, and pangs of vengeance shall seize them.
17“How often is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out, that their calamity comes on them, that God distributes sorrows in his anger?
18And they shall be as chaff before the wind, or as dust which the storm has taken up.
18How often is it that they are as stubble before the wind, as chaff that the storm carries away?
19Let his substance fail [to supply] his children: [God] shall recompense him , and he shall know it.
19You say, ‘God lays up his iniquity for his children.’ Let him recompense it to himself, that he may know it.
20Let his eyes see his own destruction, and let him not be saved by the Lord.
20Let his own eyes see his destruction. Let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
21For his desire is in his house with him, and the number of his months has been suddenly cut off.
21For what does he care for his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off?
22Is it not the Lord who teaches understanding and knowledge? and does not he judge murders?
22“Shall any teach God knowledge, since he judges those who are high?
23One shall die in his perfect strength, and wholly at ease and prosperous;
23One dies in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.
24and his inwards are full of fat, and his marrow is diffused [throughout him].
24His pails are full of milk. The marrow of his bones is moistened.
25And another dies in bitterness of soul, not eating any good thing.
25Another dies in bitterness of soul, and never tastes of good.
26But they lie down in the earth together, and corruption covers them.
26They lie down alike in the dust. The worm covers them.
27So I know you, that you⌃ presumptuously attack me:
27“Behold, I know your thoughts, the plans with which you would wrong me.
28so that you⌃ will say, Where is the house of the prince? and where is the covering of the tabernacles of the ungodly?
28For you say, ‘Where is the house of the prince? Where is the tent in which the wicked lived?’
29Ask those that go by the way, and do not disown their tokens.
29Haven’t you asked wayfaring men? Don’t you know their evidences,
30For the wicked hastens to the day of destruction: they shall be led away for the day of his vengeance.
30that the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity, that they are led out to the day of wrath?
31Who will tell him his way to his face, whereas he has done [it]? who shall recompense him?
31Who will declare his way to his face? Who will repay him what he has done?
32And he has been led away to the tombs, and he has watched over the heaps.
32Yet he will be borne to the grave. Men will keep watch over the tomb.
33The stones of the valley have been sweet to him, and every man shall depart after him, and [there are] innumerable [ones] before him.
33The clods of the valley will be sweet to him. All men will draw after him, as there were innumerable before him.
34How then do you⌃ comfort me in vain? whereas I have no rest from your molestation.
34So how can you comfort me with nonsense, because in your answers there remains only falsehood?”