Job 21
1 Bvt Iob answered, and sayd,
Then Job answered, and said:
2 Heare diligently my wordes, and this shalbe in stead of your consolations.
Hear, I beseech you, my words, and do penance.
3 Suffer mee, that I may speake, and when I haue spoken, mocke on.
Suffer me, and I will speak, and after, if you please, laugh at my words.
4 Doe I direct my talke to man? If it were so, how should not my spirit be troubled?
Is my debate against man, that I should not have just reason to be troubled?
5 Marke mee, and be abashed, and lay your hand vpon your mouth.
Hearken to me and be astonished, and lay your finger on your mouth.
6 Euen when I remember, I am afrayde, and feare taketh hold on my flesh.
As for me, when I remember, I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh.
7 Wherefore do the wicked liue, and waxe olde, and grow in wealth?
Why then do the wicked live, are they advanced, and strengthened with riches?
8 Their seede is established in their sight with them, and their generation before their eyes.
Their seed continueth before them, a multitude of kinsmen, and of children’s children in their sight.
9 Their houses are peaceable without feare, and the rod of God is not vpon them.
Their houses are secure and peaceable, and the rod of God is not upon them.
10 Their bullocke gendreth, and fayleth not: their cow calueth, and casteth not her calfe.
Their cattle have conceived, and failed not: their cow has calved, and is not deprived of her fruit.
11 They send forth their children like sheepe, and their sonnes dance.
Their little ones go out like a flock, and their children dance and play.
12 They take the tabret and harpe, and reioyce in the sound of the organs.
They take the timbrel, and the harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ.
They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment they go down to hell. (Sheol h7585)
14 They say also vnto God, Depart from vs: for we desire not the knowledge of thy wayes.
Who have said to God: Depart from us, we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.
15 Who is the Almightie, that we should serue him? and what profit should we haue, if we should pray vnto him?
Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what doth it profit us if we pray to him?
16 Lo, their wealth is not in their hand: therfore let the counsell of the wicked bee farre from me.
Yet because their good things are not in their hand, may the counsel of the wicked be far from me.
17 How oft shall the candle of the wicked be put out? and their destruction come vpon them? he wil deuide their liues in his wrath.
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?
18 They shall be as stubble before the winde, and as chaffe that the storme carieth away.
They shall be as chaff before the face of the wind, and as ashes which the whirlwind scattereth.
19 God wil lay vp the sorowe of the father for his children: when he rewardeth him, hee shall knowe it.
God shall lay up the sorrow of the father for his children: and when he shall repay, then shall he know.
20 His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drinke of the wrath of the Almightie.
His eyes shall see his own destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
21 For what pleasure hath he in his house after him, when the nomber of his moneths is cut off?
For what is it to him what befalleth his house after him: and if the number of his months be diminished by one half?
22 Shall any teache God knowledge, who iudgeth the highest things?
Shall any one teach God knowledge, who judgeth those that are high?
23 One dyeth in his full strength, being in all ease and prosperitie.
One man dieth strong, and hale, rich and happy.
24 His breasts are full of milke, and his bones runne full of marowe.
His bowels are full of fat, and his bones are moistened with marrow.
25 And another dieth in the bitternes of his soule, and neuer eateth with pleasure.
But another dieth in bitterness of soul without any riches:
26 They shall sleepe both in the dust, and the wormes shall couer them.
And yet they shall sleep together in the dust, and worms shall cover them.
27 Behold, I know your thoughts, and the enterprises, wherewith ye do me wrong.
Surely I know your thoughts, and your unjust judgments against me.
28 For ye say, Where is the princes house? and where is the tabernacle of the wickeds dwelling?
For you say: Where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked?
29 May ye not aske the that go by the way? and ye can not deny their signes.
Ask any one of them that go by the way, and you shall perceive that he knoweth these same things.
30 But the wicked is kept vnto the day of destruction, and they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.
Because the wicked man is reserved to the day of destruction, and he shall be brought to the day of wrath.
31 Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall reward him for that he hath done?
Who shall reprove his way to his face? and who shall repay him what he hath done?
32 Yet shall he be brought to the graue, and remaine in the heape.
He shall be brought to the graves, and shall watch in the heap of the dead.
33 The slimie valley shalbe sweete vnto him, and euery man shall draw after him, as before him there were innumerable.
He hath been acceptable to the gravel of Cocytus, and he shall draw every man after him, and there are innumerable before him.
34 How then comfort ye me in vaine, seeing in your answeres there remaine but lyes?
How then do ye comfort me in vain, whereas your answer is shewn to be repugnant to truth?
