< Job 21 >

1 Then answered Job, and said,
and to answer Job and to say
2 Hear, O hear my speech, and let this be wherewith you give consolations.
to hear: hear to hear: hear speech my and to be this consolation your
3 Bear with me that I may indeed speak: and after my speaking, then canst thou mock.
to lift: bear me and I to speak: speak and after to speak: speak I to mock
4 As for me, —is against man my complaint? and if this be so, why should my spirit not be impatient?
I to/for man complaint my and if: surely no why? not be short spirit: temper my
5 Turn yourselves unto me, and be astounded, and lay your hand upon your mouth.
to turn to(wards) me and be desolate: appalled and to set: put hand upon lip
6 Yea, when I think of it, I am terrified, and shuddering seizeth hold of my flesh.
and if to remember and to dismay and to grasp flesh my shuddering
7 Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, grow strong in power?
why? wicked to live to proceed also to prevail strength
8 Their seed is firmly established in their presence with them. their offspring are 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 at peace without any dread, and no rod of God [cometh] over them.
house: household their peace: well-being from dread and not tribe: staff god upon them
10 The bull of each one gendereth, and disappointeth not: the cow of each one calveth, and casteth not her young.
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 skip about [with joy].
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 wear out their days in happiness, and in a moment they go down to the nether world. (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 And yet they say unto God, “Depart from us; and the knowledge of thy ways we desire not.
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 shall we have, if we entreat him urgently?”
what? Almighty for to serve: minister him and what? to gain for to fall on in/on/with him
16 Lo, not in their hand doth their happiness rest! The counsel of the wicked be [still] far from me.
look! not in/on/with hand their goodness their counsel wicked to remove from me
17 How often is the lamp of the wicked quenched? and how often cometh over them their calamity? and doth [God] distribute their lot 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 Are they as straw before the wind, and as chaff which the stealeth away?
to be like/as straw to/for face: before spirit: breath and like/as chaff to steal him whirlwind
19 Should God lay up for his children his wrong-doing? it were better that he reward him, that he might know it himself.
god to treasure to/for son: child his evil: wickedness his to complete to(wards) him and to know
20 His own eyes ought to see his downfall, and from the wrath of the Almighty ought he to drink.
to see: see (eye his *Q(K)*) ruin his and from rage Almighty to drink
21 For what care hath he for his household after him, when the number of his months is all apportioned to him?
for what? pleasure his in/on/with house: household his after him and number month his to divide
22 Is this fitting God, who teacheth knowledge? him who judgeth those that are highest?
to/for God to learn: teach knowledge and he/she/it to exalt to judge
23 That this 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 vessels being full of healthy fluid, and the marrow of his bones being well moistened:
belly his to fill milk and marrow bone his to water: watering
25 While this other dieth with an embittered soul, and hath never partaken of any happiness;
and this to die in/on/with soul bitter and not to eat in/on/with welfare
26 [And yet] together they must lie down in the dust, and the worms will cover them?
unitedness upon dust to lie down: lay down and worm to cover upon them
27 Behold, I know your thoughts, and the opinions which ye wrongfully devise against me.
look! to know plot your and plot upon me to injure
28 For ye say, Where is the house of the noble-minded? and where is the tent of the dwelling-places of the wicked?
for to say where? house: home noble and where? tent tabernacle wicked
29 Have ye not asked the wayfarers? surely their token ye cannot disregard,
not to ask to pass way: road and sign: indicator their not to recognize
30 That the bad man is reserved for the day of calamity, [that the wicked] are carried forward to the day of wrath.
for to/for day calamity to withhold bad: evil to/for day fury to conduct
31 [But] who will tell him to his face of his way? and who will 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 Yea he will indeed be carried to the grave, and men will quickly think of his monument:
and he/she/it to/for grave to conduct and upon tomb to watch
33 Sweet are to him the clods of the valley; and after him succeedeth every man, as those that were before him are without number.
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 will ye comfort me with vanity? and of your answers there remaineth only deception.
and how? to be sorry: comfort me vanity and turn your to remain unfaithfulness

< Job 21 >