Job 21:1
And Job answereth and saith: --
Job 21:2
Hear ye diligently my word, And this is your consolation.
Job 21:3
Bear with me, and I speak, And after my speaking--ye may deride.
Job 21:4
I--to man is my complaint? and if so , wherefore May not my temper become short?
Job 21:5
Turn unto me, and be astonished, And put hand to mouth.
Job 21:6
Yea, if I have remembered, then I have been troubled. And my flesh hath taken fright.
Job 21:7
Wherefore do the wicked live? They have become old, Yea, they have been mighty in wealth.
Job 21:8
Their seed is established, Before their face with them, And their offspring before their eyes.
Job 21:9
Their houses are peace without fear, Nor is a rod of God upon them.
Job 21:10
His bullock hath eaten corn, and doth not loath. His cow bringeth forth safely, And doth not miscarry.
Job 21:11
They send forth as a flock their sucklings, And their children skip,
Job 21:12
They lift themselves up at timbrel and harp, And rejoice at the sound of an organ.
Job 21:13
They wear out in good their days, And in a moment to Sheol go down.
Job 21:14
And they say to God, `Turn aside from us, And the knowledge of Thy ways We have not desired.
Job 21:15
What is the Mighty One that we serve Him? And what do we profit when we meet with Him?'
Job 21:16
Lo, not in their hand is their good, (The counsel of the wicked Hath been far from me.)
Job 21:17
How oft is the lamp of the wicked extinguished, And come on them doth their calamity? Pangs He apportioneth in His anger.
Job 21:18
They are as straw before wind, And as chaff a hurricane hath stolen away,
Job 21:19
God layeth up for his sons his sorrow, He giveth recompense unto him--and he knoweth.
Job 21:20
His own eyes see his destruction, And of the wrath of the Mighty he drinketh.
Job 21:21
For what is his delight in his house after him, And the number of his months cut off?
Job 21:22
To God doth one teach knowledge, And He the high doth judge?
Job 21:23
This one dieth in his perfect strength, Wholly at ease and quiet.
Job 21:24
His breasts have been full of milk, And marrow his bones doth moisten.
Job 21:25
And this one dieth with a bitter soul, And have not eaten with gladness.
Job 21:26
Together--on the dust they lie down, And the worm doth cover them over.
Job 21:27
Lo, I have known your thoughts, And the devices against me ye do wrongfully.
Job 21:28
For ye say, `Where is the house of the noble? And where the tent--The tabernacles of the wicked?'
Job 21:29
Have ye not asked those passing by the way? And their signs do ye not know?
Job 21:30
That to a day of calamity is the wicked spared. To a day of wrath they are brought.
Job 21:31
Who doth declare to his face his way? And for that which he hath done, Who doth give recompence to him?
Job 21:32
And he--to the graves he is brought. And over the heap a watch is kept.
Job 21:33
Sweet to him have been the clods of the valley, And after him every man he draweth, And before him there is no numbering.
Job 21:34
And how do ye comfort me with vanity, And in your answers hath been left trespass?