| Job 21:1 |
Then Job answered and said, |
| Job 21:2 |
Listen carefully to my word, / And let this be your consolations. |
| Job 21:3 |
Bear with me, and I will speak; / And after I have spoken, mock on. |
| Job 21:4 |
As for me, is my complaint to man? / And why should my spirit not be impatient? |
| Job 21:5 |
Look at me and be appalled; / And put [your] hand over [your] mouth. |
| Job 21:6 |
Even when I remember, I am troubled, / And horror takes hold of my flesh. |
| Job 21:7 |
Why do the wicked live, / Grow old, even become mighty in riches? |
| Job 21:8 |
Their seed is established with them in their sight, / And their offspring, before their eyes. |
| Job 21:9 |
Their houses are free from dread, / And the rod of God is not upon them. |
| Job 21:10 |
Their bull breeds and does not fail; / Their cow calves and does not miscarry. |
| Job 21:11 |
They send forth their little ones like a herd, / And their children dance. |
| Job 21:12 |
They lift up [their voices] to the tambourine and lyre, / And they rejoice at the sound of the flute. |
| Job 21:13 |
They spend their days in prosperity, / And in a moment they go down into Sheol. |
| Job 21:14 |
And they say unto God, Depart from us, / For we do not desire the knowledge of Your ways. |
| Job 21:15 |
What is the Almighty, that we should serve Him? / And what profit is there, that we should pray to Him? |
| Job 21:16 |
Indeed, their prosperity is not in their own hand. / The counsel of the wicked is far from Him. |
| Job 21:17 |
How often is the lamp of the wicked put out, / So that their calamity comes upon them, / So that God distributes sorrows in His anger? |
| Job 21:18 |
Do they become like straw before the wind / And like chaff that the storm carries off? |
| Job 21:19 |
[You say,] God stores up [the punishment of] his iniquity for his children. / [I say,] Let Him recompense him, so that he knows [it.] |
| Job 21:20 |
Let his eyes see his destruction, / And let him drink the wrath of the Almighty. |
| Job 21:21 |
For what is there for him to delight in, in his house after him, / When the number of his months is cut off? |
| Job 21:22 |
Will someone teach knowledge to God, / Seeing that He judges those who are on high? |
| Job 21:23 |
One dies in his full strength, / Being completely at ease and quiet; |
| Job 21:24 |
His pails are full of milk, / And the marrow of his bones is moist. |
| Job 21:25 |
But another dies in bitterness of soul / And does not taste of good. |
| Job 21:26 |
They lie down alike in the dust, / And the worm covers them. |
| Job 21:27 |
Indeed, I know your thoughts, / And the devices by which you would wrong me. |
| Job 21:28 |
For you say, Where is the house of the prince? / Where is the tent of the dwellings of the wicked? |
| Job 21:29 |
Have you not asked those who travel the roads? / And do you not regard their evidence, |
| Job 21:30 |
That the wicked man is spared in the day of calamity, / [That] they are led forth at the day of overflowing wrath? |
| Job 21:31 |
Who will declare his way to his face? / And who will repay him what he has done? |
| Job 21:32 |
When he is borne to the grave, / A watch is kept over the tomb. |
| Job 21:33 |
The clods of the valley are sweet to him; / And all men go in procession after him, / And [those who went] before him are without number. |
| Job 21:34 |
Why then do you comfort me with vanity? / For your responses leave [only] falsehood behind. |