Job 21
1 Then Job answered, and said,
Bvt Iob answered, and sayd,
2 Hear diligently my speech, And let this be your consolations.
Heare diligently my wordes, and this shalbe in stead of your consolations.
3 Allow me, and I also will speak, and after I have spoken, mock on.
Suffer mee, that I may speake, and when I haue spoken, mocke on.
4 As for me, is my complaint to man? And why should I not be impatient?
Doe I direct my talke to man? If it were so, how should not my spirit be troubled?
5 Mark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth.
Marke mee, and be abashed, and lay your hand vpon your mouth.
6 Even when I remember, I am troubled, and horror takes hold on my flesh.
Euen when I remember, I am afrayde, and feare taketh hold on my flesh.
7 Why do the wicked live, become old, yea, grow mighty in power?
Wherefore do the wicked liue, and waxe olde, and grow in wealth?
8 Their seed is established with them in their sight, and their offspring before their eyes.
Their seede is established in their sight with them, and their generation before their eyes.
9 Their houses are safe from fear, nor is the rod of God upon them.
Their houses are peaceable without feare, and the rod of God is not vpon them.
10 Their bull breeds, and does not fail. Their cow brings forth safely, and does not miscarry.
Their bullocke gendreth, and fayleth not: their cow calueth, and casteth not her calfe.
11 They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.
They send forth their children like sheepe, and their sonnes dance.
12 They sing to the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the pipe.
They take the tabret and harpe, and reioyce in the sound of the organs.
They spend their dayes in wealth, and suddenly they go downe to the graue. (Sheol h7585)
14 And they say to God, Depart from us, for we do not desire the knowledge of thy ways.
They say also vnto God, Depart from vs: for we desire not the knowledge of thy wayes.
15 What is the Almighty that we should serve him? And what profit should we have, if we pray to him?
Who is the Almightie, that we should serue him? and what profit should we haue, if we should pray vnto him?
16 Lo, is their prosperity not in their hand. (The counsel of the wicked is far from me.)
Lo, their wealth is not in their hand: therfore let the counsell of the wicked bee farre from me.
17 How often is it that the lamp of the profane is put out, that their calamity comes upon them, that God distributes sorrows in his anger,
How oft shall the candle of the wicked be put out? and their destruction come vpon them? he wil deuide their liues in his wrath.
18 that they are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carries away?
They shall be as stubble before the winde, and as chaffe that the storme carieth away.
19 Ye say, God lays up his iniquity for his sons. Let him recompense it to himself that he may know it.
God wil lay vp the sorowe of the father for his children: when he rewardeth him, hee shall knowe it.
20 Let his own eyes see his destruction, and let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drinke of the wrath of the Almightie.
21 For what does he care for his house after him when the number of his months is cut off?
For what pleasure hath he in his house after him, when the nomber of his moneths is cut off?
22 Shall any teach God knowledge, seeing he judges those who are high?
Shall any teache God knowledge, who iudgeth the highest things?
23 One man dies in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.
One dyeth in his full strength, being in all ease and prosperitie.
24 His pails are full of milk, and the marrow of his bones is moistened.
His breasts are full of milke, and his bones runne full of marowe.
25 And another man dies in bitterness of soul, and never tastes of good.
And another dieth in the bitternes of his soule, and neuer eateth with pleasure.
26 They lie down alike in the dust, and the worm covers them.
They shall sleepe both in the dust, and the wormes shall couer them.
27 Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices with which ye would wrong me.
Behold, I know your thoughts, and the enterprises, wherewith ye do me wrong.
28 For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? And where is the tent in which the wicked dwelt?
For ye say, Where is the princes house? and where is the tabernacle of the wickeds dwelling?
29 Have ye not asked wayfaring men? And do ye not know their evidences,
May ye not aske the that go by the way? and ye can not deny their signes.
30 that the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity? That they are led forth to the day of wrath?
But the wicked is kept vnto the day of destruction, and they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.
31 Who shall declare his way to his face? And who shall repay him what he has done?
Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall reward him for that he hath done?
32 Yet he shall be borne to the grave, and men shall keep watch over the tomb.
Yet shall he be brought to the graue, and remaine in the heape.
33 The clods of the valley shall be sweet to him. And all men shall draw after him, as there were innumerable before him.
The slimie valley shalbe sweete vnto him, and euery man shall draw after him, as before him there were innumerable.
34 How then ye comfort me in vain, seeing in your answers there remains falsehood?
How then comfort ye me in vaine, seeing in your answeres there remaine but lyes?
