< Job 21 >

1 Then Job answered, and said:
And he answered Job and he said.
2 Hear, I beseech you, my words, and do penance.
Listen completely [to] speech my and let it be this consolations your.
3 Suffer me, and I will speak, and after, if you please, laugh at my words.
Bear with me and I I will speak and after have spoken I you will mock.
4 Is my debate against man, that I should not have just reason to be troubled?
¿ I to humankind [is] complaint my and if why? not will it be short spirit my.
5 Hearken to me and be astonished, and lay your finger on your mouth.
Turn to me and be appalled and put a hand over a mouth.
6 As for me, when I remember, I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh.
And if I remember [this] and I am disturbed and it takes hold of flesh my shuddering.
7 Why then do the wicked live, are they advanced, and strengthened with riches?
Why? wicked [people] do they live they grow old also do they become strong? strength.
8 Their seed continueth before them, a multitude of kinsmen, and of children’s children in their sight.
Offspring their [is] established before them with them and descendants their to eyes their.
9 Their houses are secure and peaceable, and the rod of God is not upon them.
Houses their [are] safety from fear and not [the] rod of God [is] on them.
10 Their cattle have conceived, and failed not: their cow has calved, and is not deprived of her fruit.
Bull his it impregnates and not it fails it calves cow his and not it miscarries.
11 Their little ones go out like a flock, and their children dance and play.
They send forth like flock young boys their and children their they leap about!
12 They take the timbrel, and the harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ.
They lift according to tambourine and harp so they may rejoice to [the] sound of a flute.
13 They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment they go down to hell. (Sheol h7585)
(They complete *Q(K)*) in the good days their and in a moment Sheol they descend. (Sheol h7585)
14 Who have said to God: Depart from us, we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.
And they have said to God depart from us and knowledge of ways your not we desire.
15 Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what doth it profit us if we pray to him?
What? [is the] Almighty that we will serve him and what? will we gain that we will entreat him.
16 Yet because their good things are not in their hand, may the counsel of the wicked be far from me.
There! not [is] in own hand their prosperity their [the] counsel of wicked [people] it is far from me.
17 How often shall the lamp of the wicked be put out, and a deluge come upon them, and he shall distribute the sorrows of his wrath?
How often? - [the] lamp of wicked [people] is it extinguished and it may come? on them calamity their pain does he apportion? in anger his.
18 They shall be as chaff before the face of the wind, and as ashes which the whirlwind scattereth.
Are they? like straw before a wind and like chaff [which] it has stolen it a storm-wind.
19 God shall lay up the sorrow of the father for his children: and when he shall repay, then shall he know.
God he stores up for children his wickedness his let him repay to him so he may know.
20 His eyes shall see his own destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
Let them see (own eyes his *Q(K)*) destruction his and from [the] rage of [the] Almighty let him drink.
21 For what is it to him what befalleth his house after him: and if the number of his months be diminished by one half?
For what? [is] pleasure his in household his after him and [the] number of months his they have been cut off.
22 Shall any one teach God knowledge, who judgeth those that are high?
¿ To God will anyone teach knowledge and he exalted [ones] he judges.
23 One man dieth strong, and hale, rich and happy.
This [one] he will die with limb[s] of completeness his all of him [is] at ease and at ease.
24 His bowels are full of fat, and his bones are moistened with marrow.
Pails his they are full milk and [the] marrow of bones his it is watered.
25 But another dieth in bitterness of soul without any riches:
And this [one] he will die with a soul bitter and not he has eaten in the good.
26 And yet they shall sleep together in the dust, and worms shall cover them.
Together on dust they will lie and a maggot it will cover over them.
27 Surely I know your thoughts, and your unjust judgments against me.
Here! I know thoughts your and [the] schemes on me you do violence.
28 For you say: Where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked?
For you say where? [is the] house of a noble [person] and where? [is the] tent of - [the] dwelling places of wicked [people].
29 Ask any one of them that go by the way, and you shall perceive that he knoweth these same things.
¿ Not have you asked [those who] pass by of [the] road and signs their not do you recognize?
30 Because the wicked man is reserved to the day of destruction, and he shall be brought to the day of wrath.
That to a day of calamity he is spared an evil [person] to a day of furi they are brought forth.
31 Who shall reprove his way to his face? and who shall repay him what he hath done?
Who? will he tell on face his way his and [that which] he he has done who? will he repay to him.
32 He shall be brought to the graves, and shall watch in the heap of the dead.
And he to [the] grave he will be borne and over a tomb someone will keep watch.
33 He hath been acceptable to the gravel of Cocytus, and he shall draw every man after him, and there are innumerable before him.
They will be sweet to him [the] clods of [the] wadi and after him every person he will follow and before him there not [is] number.
34 How then do ye comfort me in vain, whereas your answer is shewn to be repugnant to truth?
And how? will you comfort me vanity and answers your it remains unfaithfulness.

< Job 21 >