Job 21
1 Then Job responded by saying:
and to answer Job and to say
2 I beseech you to hear my words and to do penance.
to hear: hear to hear: hear speech my and to be this consolation your
3 Permit me, and I will speak, and afterwards, if you see fit, you can laugh at my words.
to lift: bear me and I to speak: speak and after to speak: speak I to mock
4 Is my dispute against man, so that I would have no reason to be discouraged?
I to/for man complaint my and if: surely no why? not be short spirit: temper my
5 Listen to me and be astonished, and place a finger over your mouth.
to turn to(wards) me and be desolate: appalled and to set: put hand upon lip
6 As for me, when I think it over, I am afraid, and trembling convulses my body.
and if to remember and to dismay and to grasp flesh my shuddering
7 Why then do the impious live, having been lifted up and strengthened with riches?
why? wicked to live to proceed also to prevail strength
8 They see their offspring continue before them: a commotion of close relatives and of children’s children in their sight.
seed: children their to establish: establish to/for face their with them and offspring their to/for eye their
9 Their houses have been secure and peaceable, and there is no staff of God over them.
house: household their peace: well-being from dread and not tribe: staff god upon them
10 Their cattle have conceived and have not miscarried; their cow has given birth and is not deprived of her newborn.
cattle his to pass and not to abhor to escape heifer his and not be bereaved
11 Their little ones go out like a flock, and their children jump around playfully.
to send: depart like/as flock boy their and youth their to skip about [emph?]
12 They take up the timbrel and the lyre, and they rejoice at the sound of the organ.
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 Who has said to God, “Depart from us, for we do not want 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 Who is the Almighty that we should serve him? And how is it helpful to us 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 It is true that their good things are not in their power. May the counsel of the impious be far from me!
look! not in/on/with hand their goodness their counsel wicked to remove from me
17 How often will the lamp of the wicked be extinguished, and a deluge overtake them, and how often will he distribute the afflictions of his wrath?
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 They will be like chaff before the face of the wind, and like ashes that the whirlwind scatters.
to be like/as straw to/for face: before spirit: breath and like/as chaff to steal him whirlwind
19 God will preserve the grief of the father for his sons, and, when he repays, then he will understand.
god to treasure to/for son: child his evil: wickedness his to complete to(wards) him and to know
20 His eyes will see his own destruction, and he will drink from 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 what happens to his house after him, or if the number of its months are reduced by half?
for what? pleasure his in/on/with house: household his after him and number month his to divide
22 Can anyone teach holy knowledge to God, who judges the exalted?
to/for God to learn: teach knowledge and he/she/it to exalt to judge
23 This one dies strong and healthy, rich and happy.
this to die in/on/with bone integrity his all his at ease and at ease
24 His gut is full of fat and his bones are moistened with marrow.
belly his to fill milk and marrow bone his to water: watering
25 In truth, another dies in bitterness of soul, without any resources.
and this to die in/on/with soul bitter and not to eat in/on/with welfare
26 And yet they will sleep together in the dust, and worms will cover them.
unitedness upon dust to lie down: lay down and worm to cover upon them
27 Surely, I know your thoughts and your sinful judgments 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 are the tabernacles of the impious?”
for to say where? house: home noble and where? tent tabernacle wicked
29 Ask any passerby whom you wish, and you will realize that he understands these same things:
not to ask to pass way: road and sign: indicator their not to recognize
30 that the evil-doer is reserved for the day of destruction, and he will be led to the day of wrath.
for to/for day calamity to withhold bad: evil to/for day fury to conduct
31 Who will reprove his way to his face, and who will repay 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 will be led to the tomb, and he will remain awake in the chaos of the dead.
and he/she/it to/for grave to conduct and upon tomb to watch
33 He has been found acceptable to the banks of the River of Lamentation, and he will draw any man towards him, and there are countless 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 Therefore, how long will you console me in vain, when your answer is shown to be repugnant to truth?
and how? to be sorry: comfort me vanity and turn your to remain unfaithfulness
