< Job 21 >

1 Then Job answered and said:
and to answer Job and to say
2 Hear diligently my speech; and let this be your consolations.
to hear: hear to hear: hear speech my and to be this consolation your
3 Suffer me, that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on.
to lift: bear me and I to speak: speak and after to speak: speak I to mock
4 As for me, is my complaint to man? Or why should I not be impatient?
I to/for man complaint my and if: surely no why? not be short spirit: temper my
5 Turn unto me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth.
to turn to(wards) me and be desolate: appalled and to set: put hand upon lip
6 Even when I remember I am affrighted, and horror hath taketh hold on my flesh.
and if to remember and to dismay and to grasp flesh my shuddering
7 Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, wax mighty in power?
why? wicked to live to proceed also to prevail strength
8 Their seed is established in their sight 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 safe, without fear, neither is the rod of God upon them.
house: household their peace: well-being from dread and not tribe: staff god upon them
10 Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf.
cattle his to pass and not to abhor to escape heifer his and not be bereaved
11 They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.
to send: depart like/as flock boy their and youth their to skip about [emph?]
12 They sing to the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the pipe.
to lift: bear like/as tambourine and lyre and to rejoice to/for voice: sound pipe
13 They spend their days in prosperity, and peacefully they go down to the grave. (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 Yet they said unto God: 'Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of Thy 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 Almighty, that we should serve Him? And what profit should we have, if we pray unto Him?' —
what? Almighty for to serve: minister him and what? to gain for to fall on in/on/with him
16 Lo, their prosperity is not in their hand; the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
look! not in/on/with hand their goodness their counsel wicked to remove from me
17 How oft is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out? that their calamity cometh upon them? that He distributeth pains in His anger?
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 That they are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm stealeth away?
to be like/as straw to/for face: before spirit: breath and like/as chaff to steal him whirlwind
19 'God layeth up his iniquity for his children!' — let Him recompense it unto himself, that he may know it.
god to treasure to/for son: child his evil: wickedness his to complete to(wards) him and to know
20 Let his own eyes see his destruction, and let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
to see: see (eye his *Q(K)*) ruin his and from rage Almighty to drink
21 For what pleasure hath he in his house after him? seeing the number of his months is determined.
for what? pleasure his in/on/with house: household his after him and number month his to divide
22 Shall any teach God knowledge? seeing it is He that judgeth those that are high.
to/for God to learn: teach knowledge and he/she/it to exalt to judge
23 One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet;
this to die in/on/with bone integrity his all his at ease and at ease
24 His pails are full of milk, and the marrow of his bones is moistened.
belly his to fill milk and marrow bone his to water: watering
25 And another dieth in bitterness of soul, and hath never tasted of good.
and this to die in/on/with soul bitter and not to eat in/on/with welfare
26 They lie down alike in the dust, and the worm covereth them.
unitedness upon dust to lie down: lay down and worm to cover upon them
27 Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me.
look! to know plot your and plot upon me to injure
28 For ye say: 'Where is the house of the prince? And where is the tent wherein the wicked dwelt?'
for to say where? house: home noble and where? tent tabernacle wicked
29 Have ye not asked them that go by the way; and will ye misdeem their tokens,
not to ask to pass way: road and sign: indicator their not to recognize
30 That the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity, that they are led forth to the day of wrath?
for to/for day calamity to withhold bad: evil to/for day fury to conduct
31 But who shall declare his way to his face? And who shall repay him what he hath done?
who? to tell upon face his way: conduct his and he/she/it to make: do who? to complete to/for him
32 For he is borne to the grave, and watch is kept over his tomb.
and he/she/it to/for grave to conduct and upon tomb to watch
33 The clods of the valley are sweet unto him, and all men draw after him, as there were innumerable 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 How then comfort ye me in vain? And as for your answers, there remaineth only faithlessness?
and how? to be sorry: comfort me vanity and turn your to remain unfaithfulness

< Job 21 >