Job 21
1 But Job answered and said,
Bvt Iob answered, and sayd,
2 Hear you, hear you my words, that I may not have this consolation from you.
Heare diligently my wordes, and this shalbe in stead of your consolations.
3 Raise me, and I will speak; then you shall not laugh me to scorn.
Suffer mee, that I may speake, and when I haue spoken, mocke on.
4 What! is my reproof of man? and why should I not be angry?
Doe I direct my talke to man? If it were so, how should not my spirit be troubled?
5 Look upon me, and wonder, laying your hand upon your cheek.
Marke mee, and be abashed, and lay your hand vpon your mouth.
6 For even when I remember, I am alarmed, and pains seize my flesh.
Euen when I remember, I am afrayde, and feare taketh hold on my flesh.
7 Therefore do the ungodly live, and grow old even in wealth?
Wherefore do the wicked liue, and waxe olde, and grow in wealth?
8 Their seed is according to [their] desire, and their children are in [their] sight.
Their seede is established in their sight with them, and their generation before their eyes.
9 Their houses are prosperous, neither [have they] any where [cause for] fear, neither is there a scourge from the Lord upon them.
Their houses are peaceable without feare, and the rod of God is not vpon them.
10 Their cow does not cast her calf, and their [beast] with young is safe, and does not miscarry.
Their bullocke gendreth, and fayleth not: their cow calueth, and casteth not her calfe.
11 And they remain as an unfailing flock, and their children play before [them], taking up the lute and harp;
They send forth their children like sheepe, and their sonnes dance.
12 and they rejoice at the voice of a song.
They take the tabret and harpe, and reioyce in the sound of the organs.
They spend their dayes in wealth, and suddenly they go downe to the graue. (Sheol h7585)
14 Yet [such a man] says to the Lord, Depart from me; I desire not to know your ways.
They say also vnto God, Depart from vs: for we desire not the knowledge of thy wayes.
15 What is the Mighty One, that we should serve him? and what profit is there that we should approach him?
Who is the Almightie, that we should serue him? and what profit should we haue, if we should pray vnto him?
16 For their good things were in [their] hands, but he regards not the works of the ungodly.
Lo, their wealth is not in their hand: therfore let the counsell of the wicked bee farre from me.
17 Nevertheless, the lamp of the ungodly also shall be put out, and destruction shall come upon them, and pangs of vengeance shall seize them.
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.
18 And they shall be as chaff before the wind, or as dust which the storm has taken up.
They shall be as stubble before the winde, and as chaffe that the storme carieth away.
19 Let his substance fail [to supply] his children: [God] shall recompense him, and he shall know it.
God wil lay vp the sorowe of the father for his children: when he rewardeth him, hee shall knowe it.
20 Let his eyes see his own destruction, and let him not be saved by the Lord.
His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drinke of the wrath of the Almightie.
21 For his desire is in his house with him, and the number of his months has been suddenly cut off.
For what pleasure hath he in his house after him, when the nomber of his moneths is cut off?
22 Is it not the Lord who teaches understanding and knowledge? and does not he judge murders?
Shall any teache God knowledge, who iudgeth the highest things?
23 One shall die in his perfect strength, and wholly at ease and prosperous;
One dyeth in his full strength, being in all ease and prosperitie.
24 and his inwards are full of fat, and his marrow is diffused [throughout him].
His breasts are full of milke, and his bones runne full of marowe.
25 And another dies in bitterness of soul, not eating any good thing.
And another dieth in the bitternes of his soule, and neuer eateth with pleasure.
26 But they lie down in the earth together, and corruption covers them.
They shall sleepe both in the dust, and the wormes shall couer them.
27 So I know you, that you presumptuously attack me:
Behold, I know your thoughts, and the enterprises, wherewith ye do me wrong.
28 so that you will say, Where is the house of the prince? and where is the covering of the tabernacles of the ungodly?
For ye say, Where is the princes house? and where is the tabernacle of the wickeds dwelling?
29 Ask those that go by the way, and do not disown their tokens.
May ye not aske the that go by the way? and ye can not deny their signes.
30 For the wicked hastens to the day of destruction: they shall be led away for the day of his vengeance.
But the wicked is kept vnto the day of destruction, and they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.
31 Who will tell him his way to his face, whereas he has done [it]? who shall recompense him?
Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall reward him for that he hath done?
32 And he has been led away to the tombs, and he has watched over the heaps.
Yet shall he be brought to the graue, and remaine in the heape.
33 The stones of the valley have been sweet to him, and every man shall depart after him, and [there are] innumerable [ones] before him.
The slimie valley shalbe sweete vnto him, and euery man shall draw after him, as before him there were innumerable.
34 How then do you comfort me in vain? whereas I have no rest from your molestation.
How then comfort ye me in vaine, seeing in your answeres there remaine but lyes?
