Job 21
1 Then Job answered:
and to answer Job and to say
2 “Listen carefully to my words; let this be your consolation to me.
to hear: hear to hear: hear speech my and to be this consolation your
3 Bear with me while I speak; then, after I have spoken, you may go on mocking.
to lift: bear me and I to speak: speak and after to speak: speak I to mock
4 Is my complaint against a man? Then why should I not be impatient?
I to/for man complaint my and if: surely no why? not be short spirit: temper my
5 Look at me and be appalled; put your hand over your mouth.
to turn to(wards) me and be desolate: appalled and to set: put hand upon lip
6 When I remember, terror takes hold, and my body trembles in horror.
and if to remember and to dismay and to grasp flesh my shuddering
7 Why do the wicked live on, growing old and increasing in power?
why? wicked to live to proceed also to prevail strength
8 Their descendants are established around them, 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 homes are safe from fear; no rod of punishment from God is upon them.
house: household their peace: well-being from dread and not tribe: staff god upon them
10 Their bulls breed without fail; their cows bear calves and do 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; their children skip about,
to send: depart like/as flock boy their and youth their to skip about [emph?]
12 singing to the tambourine and lyre and making merry at the sound of the flute.
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 Yet they say to God: ‘Leave us alone! For we have no desire to know Your ways.
and to say to/for God to turn aside: depart from us and knowledge way: conduct your not to delight in
15 Who is the Almighty, that we should serve Him, and what would we gain 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 Still, their prosperity is not in their own hands, so I stay far from the counsel of the wicked.
look! not in/on/with hand their goodness their counsel wicked to remove from me
17 How often is the lamp of the wicked put out? Does disaster come upon them? Does God, in His anger, apportion destruction?
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 Are they like straw before the wind, like chaff swept away by a storm?
to be like/as straw to/for face: before spirit: breath and like/as chaff to steal him whirlwind
19 It is said that God lays up one’s punishment for his children. Let God repay the man himself, so he will know it.
god to treasure to/for son: child his evil: wickedness his to complete to(wards) him and to know
20 Let his eyes see his own destruction; let him drink for himself 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 about his household after him, when the number of his months has run out?
for what? pleasure his in/on/with house: household his after him and number month his to divide
22 Can anyone teach knowledge to God, since He judges those on high?
to/for God to learn: teach knowledge and he/she/it to exalt to judge
23 One man dies full of vigor, completely secure and at ease.
this to die in/on/with bone integrity his all his at ease and at ease
24 His body is well nourished, and his bones are rich with marrow.
belly his to fill milk and marrow bone his to water: watering
25 Yet another man dies in the bitterness of his soul, having never tasted prosperity.
and this to die in/on/with soul bitter and not to eat in/on/with welfare
26 But together they lie down in the dust, and worms cover them both.
unitedness upon dust to lie down: lay down and worm to cover upon them
27 Behold, I know your thoughts full well, the schemes by which you would wrong me.
look! to know plot your and plot upon me to injure
28 For you say, ‘Where now is the nobleman’s house, and where are the tents in which the wicked dwell?’
for to say where? house: home noble and where? tent tabernacle wicked
29 Have you never asked those who travel the roads? Do you not accept their reports?
not to ask to pass way: road and sign: indicator their not to recognize
30 Indeed, the evil man is spared from the day of calamity, delivered from the day of wrath.
for to/for day calamity to withhold bad: evil to/for day fury to conduct
31 Who denounces his behavior to his face? Who repays him for 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 He is carried to the grave, and watch is kept over his tomb.
and he/she/it to/for grave to conduct and upon tomb to watch
33 The clods of the valley are sweet to him; everyone follows behind him, and those before him are without number.
be sweet to/for him clod torrent: valley and after him all man to draw and to/for face: before his nothing number
34 So how can you comfort me with empty words? For your answers remain full of falsehood.”
and how? to be sorry: comfort me vanity and turn your to remain unfaithfulness
