Job 21
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| 1 | Then Job answered and said: |
| 2 | Hear diligently my speech; And let this be your consolations. |
| 3 | Suffer me, that I may speak; And after that I have spoken, mock on. |
| 4 | As for me, is my complaint to man? Or why should I not be impatient? |
| 5 | Turn unto me, and be astonished, And lay your hand upon your mouth. |
| 6 | Even when I remember I am affrighted, And horror hath taketh hold on my flesh. |
| 7 | Wherefore do the wicked live, Become old, yea, wax mighty in power? |
| 8 | Their seed is established in their sight with them, And their offspring before their eyes. |
| 9 | Their houses are safe, without fear, Neither is the rod of God upon them. |
| 10 | Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; Their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf. |
| 11 | They send forth their little ones like a flock, And their children dance. |
| 12 | They sing to the timbrel and harp, And rejoice at the sound of the pipe. |
| 13 | They spend their days in prosperity, And peacefully they go down to the grave. |
| 14 | Yet they said unto God: ‘Depart from us; For we desire not the knowledge of Thy ways. |
| 15 | What is the Almighty, that we should serve Him? And what profit should we have, if we pray unto Him?’— |
| 16 | Lo, their prosperity is not in their hand; The counsel of the wicked is far from me. |
| 17 | How oft is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out? That their calamity cometh upon them? That He distributeth pains in His anger? |
| 18 | That they are as stubble before the wind, And as chaff that the storm stealeth away? |
| 19 | ’God layeth up his iniquity for his children! ’— Let Him recompense it unto himself, that he may know it. |
| 20 | Let his own eyes see his destruction, And let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty. |
| 21 | For what pleasure hath he in his house after him? Seeing the number of his months is determined. |
| 22 | Shall any teach God knowledge? Seeing it is He that judgeth those that are high. |
| 23 | One dieth in his full strength, Being wholly at ease and quiet; |
| 24 | His pails are full of milk, And the marrow of his bones is moistened. |
| 25 | And another dieth in bitterness of soul, And hath never tasted of good. |
| 26 | They lie down alike in the dust, And the worm covereth them. |
| 27 | Behold, I know your thoughts, And the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me. |
| 28 | For ye say: ‘Where is the house of the prince? And where is the tent wherein the wicked dwelt?’ |
| 29 | Have ye not asked them that go by the way; And will ye misdeem their tokens, |
| 30 | That the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity, That they are led forth to the day of wrath? |
| 31 | But who shall declare his way to his face? And who shall repay him what he hath done? |
| 32 | For he is borne to the grave, And watch is kept over his tomb. |
| 33 | The clods of the valley are sweet unto him, And all men draw after him, As there were innumerable before him. |
| 34 | How then comfort ye me in vain? And as for your answers, there remaineth only faithlessness? |