Job 21
1 Then Job answered, and said,
and to answer Job and to say
2 Hear diligently my speech, And let this be your consolations.
to hear: hear to hear: hear speech my and to be this consolation your
3 Allow me, and I also will speak, and after I have spoken, mock on.
to lift: bear me and I to speak: speak and after to speak: speak I to mock
4 As for me, is my complaint to man? And why should I not be impatient?
I to/for man complaint my and if: surely no why? not be short spirit: temper my
5 Mark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth.
to turn to(wards) me and be desolate: appalled and to set: put hand upon lip
6 Even when I remember, I am troubled, and horror takes hold on my flesh.
and if to remember and to dismay and to grasp flesh my shuddering
7 Why do the wicked live, become old, yea, grow mighty in power?
why? wicked to live to proceed also to prevail strength
8 Their seed is established with them in their sight, and their offspring before their eyes.
seed: children their to establish: establish to/for face their with them and offspring their to/for eye their
9 Their houses are safe from fear, nor is the rod of God upon them.
house: household their peace: well-being from dread and not tribe: staff god upon them
10 Their bull breeds, and does not fail. Their cow brings forth safely, and does not miscarry.
cattle his to pass and not to abhor to escape heifer his and not be bereaved
11 They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.
to send: depart like/as flock boy their and youth their to skip about [emph?]
12 They sing to the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the pipe.
to lift: bear like/as tambourine and lyre and to rejoice to/for voice: sound pipe
(to end: finish *Q(K)*) in/on/with good day their and in/on/with moment hell: Sheol to descend (Sheol h7585)
14 And they say to God, Depart from us, for we do not desire the knowledge of thy ways.
and to say to/for God to turn aside: depart from us and knowledge way: conduct your not to delight in
15 What is the Almighty that we should serve him? And what profit should we have, if we pray to him?
what? Almighty for to serve: minister him and what? to gain for to fall on in/on/with him
16 Lo, is their prosperity not in their hand. (The counsel of the wicked is far from me.)
look! not in/on/with hand their goodness their counsel wicked to remove 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,
like/as what? lamp wicked to put out and to come (in): come upon them calamity their pain to divide in/on/with face: anger his
18 that they are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carries away?
to be like/as straw to/for face: before spirit: breath and like/as chaff to steal him whirlwind
19 Ye say, God lays up his iniquity for his sons. Let him recompense it to himself that he may know it.
god to treasure to/for son: child his evil: wickedness his to complete to(wards) him and to know
20 Let his own eyes see his destruction, and let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
to see: see (eye his *Q(K)*) ruin his and from rage Almighty to drink
21 For what does he care for his house after him when the number of his months is cut off?
for what? pleasure his in/on/with house: household his after him and number month his to divide
22 Shall any teach God knowledge, seeing he judges those who are high?
to/for God to learn: teach knowledge and he/she/it to exalt to judge
23 One man dies in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.
this to die in/on/with bone integrity his all his at ease and at ease
24 His pails are full of milk, and the marrow of his bones is moistened.
belly his to fill milk and marrow bone his to water: watering
25 And another man dies in bitterness of soul, and never tastes of good.
and this to die in/on/with soul bitter and not to eat in/on/with welfare
26 They lie down alike in the dust, and the worm covers them.
unitedness upon dust to lie down: lay down and worm to cover upon them
27 Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices with which ye would wrong me.
look! to know plot your and plot upon me to injure
28 For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? And where is the tent in which the wicked dwelt?
for to say where? house: home noble and where? tent tabernacle wicked
29 Have ye not asked wayfaring men? And do ye not know their evidences,
not to ask to pass way: road and sign: indicator their not to recognize
30 that the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity? That they are led forth to the day of wrath?
for to/for day calamity to withhold bad: evil to/for day fury to conduct
31 Who shall declare his way to his face? And who shall repay him what he has done?
who? to tell upon face his way: conduct his and he/she/it to make: do who? to complete to/for him
32 Yet he shall be borne to the grave, and men shall keep watch over the tomb.
and he/she/it to/for grave to conduct and upon tomb to watch
33 The clods of the valley shall be sweet to him. And all men shall draw after him, as there were innumerable before him.
be sweet to/for him clod torrent: valley and after him all man to draw and to/for face: before his nothing number
34 How then ye comfort me in vain, seeing in your answers there remains falsehood?
and how? to be sorry: comfort me vanity and turn your to remain unfaithfulness
