< Job 21 >
1 But 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? and if [it were so], why should not my spirit be troubled?
I to/for man complaint my and if: surely no why? not be short spirit: temper my
5 Mark 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 afraid, and trembling 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, are 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 from 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 take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ.
to lift: bear like/as tambourine and lyre and to rejoice to/for voice: sound pipe
13 They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave. (Sheol )
(to end: finish *Q(K)*) in/on/with good day their and in/on/with moment hell: Sheol to descend (Sheol )
14 Therefore they say 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 good [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 the candle of the wicked put out! and [how oft] cometh their destruction upon them! [God] distributeth sorrows 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 They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth 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: he rewardeth him, and he shall know [it].
god to treasure to/for son: child his evil: wickedness his to complete to(wards) him and to know
20 His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall 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, when the number of his months is cut off in the midst?
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 he 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 breasts are full of milk, and his bones are moistened with marrow.
belly his to fill milk and marrow bone his to water: watering
25 And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never eateth with pleasure.
and this to die in/on/with soul bitter and not to eat in/on/with welfare
26 They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover 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 [are] the dwelling places of the wicked?
for to say where? house: home noble and where? tent tabernacle wicked
29 Have ye not asked them that go by the way? and do ye not know their tokens,
not to ask to pass way: road and sign: indicator their not to recognize
30 That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.
for to/for day calamity to withhold bad: evil to/for day fury to conduct
31 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 Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb.
and he/she/it to/for grave to conduct and upon tomb to watch
33 The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, and every man shall draw after him, as [there are] 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, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood?
and how? to be sorry: comfort me vanity and turn your to remain unfaithfulness