Job 21
1 Then Job made answer and said,
and to answer Job and to say
2 Give attention with care to my words; and let this be your comfort.
to hear: hear to hear: hear speech my and to be this consolation your
3 Let me say what is in my mind, and after that, go on making sport of me.
to lift: bear me and I to speak: speak and after to speak: speak I to mock
4 As for me, is my outcry against man? is it then to be wondered at if my spirit is troubled?
I to/for man complaint my and if: surely no why? not be short spirit: temper my
5 Take note of me and be full of wonder, put your hand on your mouth.
to turn to(wards) me and be desolate: appalled and to set: put hand upon lip
6 At the very thought of it my flesh is shaking with fear.
and if to remember and to dismay and to grasp flesh my shuddering
7 Why is life given to the evil-doers? why do they become old and strong in power?
why? wicked to live to proceed also to prevail strength
8 Their children are ever with 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 houses are free from fear, and the rod of God does not come on them.
house: household their peace: well-being from dread and not tribe: staff god upon them
10 Their ox is ready at all times to give seed; their cow gives birth, without dropping her young.
cattle his to pass and not to abhor to escape heifer his and not be bereaved
11 They send out their young ones like a flock, and their children have pleasure in the dance,
to send: depart like/as flock boy their and youth their to skip about [emph?]
12 They make songs to the instruments of music, and are glad at the sound of the pipe.
to lift: bear like/as tambourine and lyre and to rejoice to/for voice: sound pipe
13 Their days come to an end without trouble, and suddenly they go down to the underworld. (Sheol h7585)
(to end: finish *Q(K)*) in/on/with good day their and in/on/with moment hell: Sheol to descend (Sheol h7585)
14 Though they said to God, Go away from us, for we have no desire for the knowledge of your 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 Ruler of all, that we may give him worship? and what profit is it to us to make prayer to him?
what? Almighty for to serve: minister him and what? to gain for to fall on in/on/with him
16 Truly, is not their well-being in their power? (The purpose of the evil-doers is far from me.)
look! not in/on/with hand their goodness their counsel wicked to remove from me
17 How frequently is the light of the evil-doers put out, or does trouble come on them? how frequently does his wrath take them with cords?
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 How frequently are they as dry stems before the wind, or as grass taken away by the storm-wind?
to be like/as straw to/for face: before spirit: breath and like/as chaff to steal him whirlwind
19 You say, God keeps punishment stored up for his children. Let him send it on the man himself, so that he may have the punishment of 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 trouble, and let him be full of the wrath of the Ruler of all!
to see: see (eye his *Q(K)*) ruin his and from rage Almighty to drink
21 For what interest has he in his house after him, when the number of his months is ended?
for what? pleasure his in/on/with house: household his after him and number month his to divide
22 Is anyone able to give teaching to God? for he is the judge of those who are on high.
to/for God to learn: teach knowledge and he/she/it to exalt to judge
23 One comes to his end in complete well-being, full of peace and quiet:
this to die in/on/with bone integrity his all his at ease and at ease
24 His buckets are full of milk, and there is no loss of strength in his bones.
belly his to fill milk and marrow bone his to water: watering
25 And another comes to his end with a bitter soul, without ever tasting good.
and this to die in/on/with soul bitter and not to eat in/on/with welfare
26 Together they go down to the dust, and are covered by the worm.
unitedness upon dust to lie down: lay down and worm to cover upon them
27 See, I am conscious of your thoughts, and of your violent purposes against me;
look! to know plot your and plot upon me to injure
28 For you say, Where is the house of the ruler, and where is the tent of the evil-doer?
for to say where? house: home noble and where? tent tabernacle wicked
29 Have you not put the question to the travellers, and do you not take note of their experience?
not to ask to pass way: road and sign: indicator their not to recognize
30 How the evil man goes free in the day of trouble, and has salvation in the day of wrath?
for to/for day calamity to withhold bad: evil to/for day fury to conduct
31 Who will make his way clear to his face? and if he has done a thing, who gives him punishment for it?
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 taken to his last resting-place, and keeps watch over it.
and he/she/it to/for grave to conduct and upon tomb to watch
33 The earth of the valley covering his bones is sweet to him, and all men come after him, as there were unnumbered 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 Why then do you give me comfort with words in which there is no profit, when you see that there is nothing in your answers but deceit?
and how? to be sorry: comfort me vanity and turn your to remain unfaithfulness
