< Job 21 >

1 Then Job answered,
and to answer Job and to say
2 "Listen diligently to my speech. Let this be your consolation.
to hear: hear to hear: hear speech my and to be this consolation your
3 Allow me, and I also will speak; After 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? Why shouldn't I be impatient?
I to/for man complaint my and if: surely no why? not be short spirit: temper my
5 Look at me, and be astonished. Lay your hand on your mouth.
to turn to(wards) me and be desolate: appalled and to set: put hand upon lip
6 When I remember, I am troubled. Horror takes hold of my flesh.
and if to remember and to dismay and to grasp flesh my shuddering
7 "Why do the wicked live, become old, yes, and grow mighty in power?
why? wicked to live to proceed also to prevail strength
8 Their child is established with them in their sight, 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 bulls breed without fail. Their cows calve, and do not miscarry.
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. Their children dance.
to send: depart like/as flock boy their and youth their to skip about [emph?]
12 They sing to the tambourine 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. In an instant they go down to Sheol. (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 They tell God, 'Depart from us, for we do not want to know about your 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 Shaddai, that we should serve him? What profit should we have, if we pray to him?'
what? Almighty for to serve: minister him and what? to gain for to fall on in/on/with him
16 Look, 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 often is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out, that their calamity comes on them, that he distributes 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 How often is it that they are as stubble before the wind, as chaff that the storm carries away?
to be like/as straw to/for face: before spirit: breath and like/as chaff to steal him whirlwind
19 You say, 'God lays up his iniquity for his children.' Let him recompense it to 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. Let him drink of the wrath of Shaddai.
to see: see (eye his *Q(K)*) ruin his and from rage Almighty to drink
21 For what does he care for his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off?
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 judges those who are high?
to/for God to learn: teach knowledge and he/she/it to exalt to judge
23 One dies 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. The marrow of his bones is moistened.
belly his to fill milk and marrow bone his to water: watering
25 Another dies in bitterness of soul, and never tastes 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. The worm covers them.
unitedness upon dust to lie down: lay down and worm to cover upon them
27 "Look, I know your thoughts, the devices with which you would wrong me.
look! to know plot your and plot upon me to injure
28 For you say, 'Where is the house of the prince? Where is the tent in which the wicked lived?'
for to say where? house: home noble and where? tent tabernacle wicked
29 Haven't you asked wayfaring men? Do you not know their evidences,
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 Who shall declare his way to his face? Who shall repay him what he has 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 he will be borne to the grave. Men shall keep watch over 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 to him. All men shall 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 So how can you comfort me with nonsense, seeing that in your answers there remains only falsehood?"
and how? to be sorry: comfort me vanity and turn your to remain unfaithfulness

< Job 21 >