< Job 21 >

1 Bvt Iob answered, and sayd,
And he answered Job and he said.
2 Heare diligently my wordes, and this shalbe in stead of your consolations.
Listen completely [to] speech my and let it be this consolations your.
3 Suffer mee, that I may speake, and when I haue spoken, mocke on.
Bear with me and I I will speak and after have spoken I you will mock.
4 Doe I direct my talke to man? If it were so, how should not my spirit be troubled?
¿ I to humankind [is] complaint my and if why? not will it be short spirit my.
5 Marke mee, and be abashed, and lay your hand vpon your mouth.
Turn to me and be appalled and put a hand over a mouth.
6 Euen when I remember, I am afrayde, and feare taketh hold on my flesh.
And if I remember [this] and I am disturbed and it takes hold of flesh my shuddering.
7 Wherefore do the wicked liue, and waxe olde, and grow in wealth?
Why? wicked [people] do they live they grow old also do they become strong? strength.
8 Their seede is established in their sight with them, and their generation before their eyes.
Offspring their [is] established before them with them and descendants their to eyes their.
9 Their houses are peaceable without feare, and the rod of God is not vpon them.
Houses their [are] safety from fear and not [the] rod of God [is] on them.
10 Their bullocke gendreth, and fayleth not: their cow calueth, and casteth not her calfe.
Bull his it impregnates and not it fails it calves cow his and not it miscarries.
11 They send forth their children like sheepe, and their sonnes dance.
They send forth like flock young boys their and children their they leap about!
12 They take the tabret and harpe, and reioyce in the sound of the organs.
They lift according to tambourine and harp so they may rejoice to [the] sound of a flute.
13 They spend their dayes in wealth, and suddenly they go downe to the graue. (Sheol h7585)
(They complete *Q(K)*) in the good days their and in a moment Sheol they descend. (Sheol h7585)
14 They say also vnto God, Depart from vs: for we desire not the knowledge of thy wayes.
And they have said to God depart from us and knowledge of ways your not we desire.
15 Who is the Almightie, that we should serue him? and what profit should we haue, if we should pray vnto him?
What? [is the] Almighty that we will serve him and what? will we gain that we will entreat him.
16 Lo, their wealth is not in their hand: therfore let the counsell of the wicked bee farre from me.
There! not [is] in own hand their prosperity their [the] counsel of wicked [people] it is 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? - [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 stubble before the winde, and as chaffe that the storme carieth away.
Are they? like straw before a wind and like chaff [which] it has stolen it a storm-wind.
19 God wil lay vp the sorowe of the father for his children: when he rewardeth him, hee shall knowe it.
God he stores up for children his wickedness his let him repay to him so he may know.
20 His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drinke of the wrath of the Almightie.
Let them see (own eyes his *Q(K)*) destruction his and from [the] rage of [the] Almighty let him drink.
21 For what pleasure hath he in his house after him, when the nomber of his moneths is cut off?
For what? [is] pleasure his in household his after him and [the] number of months his they have been cut off.
22 Shall any teache God knowledge, who iudgeth the highest things?
¿ To God will anyone teach knowledge and he exalted [ones] he judges.
23 One dyeth in his full strength, being in all ease and prosperitie.
This [one] he will die with limb[s] of completeness his all of him [is] at ease and at ease.
24 His breasts are full of milke, and his bones runne full of marowe.
Pails his they are full milk and [the] marrow of bones his it is watered.
25 And another dieth in the bitternes of his soule, and neuer eateth with pleasure.
And this [one] he will die with a soul bitter and not he has eaten in the good.
26 They shall sleepe both in the dust, and the wormes shall couer them.
Together on dust they will lie and a maggot it will cover over them.
27 Behold, I know your thoughts, and the enterprises, wherewith ye do me wrong.
Here! I know thoughts your and [the] schemes on me you do violence.
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 a noble [person] and where? [is the] tent of - [the] dwelling places of wicked [people].
29 May ye not aske the that go by the way? and ye can not deny their signes.
¿ Not have you asked [those who] pass by of [the] road and signs their not do you recognize?
30 But the wicked is kept vnto the day of destruction, and they shall be brought forth 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 declare his way to his face? and who shall reward him for that 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 Yet shall he be brought to the graue, and remaine in the heape.
And he to [the] grave he will be borne and over a tomb someone will keep watch.
33 The slimie valley shalbe sweete vnto him, and euery man shall draw after him, as before him there were innumerable.
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 comfort ye me in vaine, seeing in your answeres there remaine but lyes?
And how? will you comfort me vanity and answers your it remains unfaithfulness.

< Job 21 >