Job 21
1 And he answered Job and he said.
Then Job answered:
2 Listen completely [to] speech my and let it be this consolations your.
“Listen carefully to my words; let this be your consolation to me.
3 Bear with me and I I will speak and after have spoken I you will mock.
Bear with me while I speak; then, after I have spoken, you may go on mocking.
4 ¿ I to humankind [is] complaint my and if why? not will it be short spirit my.
Is my complaint against a man? Then why should I not be impatient?
5 Turn to me and be appalled and put a hand over a mouth.
Look at me and be appalled; put your hand over your mouth.
6 And if I remember [this] and I am disturbed and it takes hold of flesh my shuddering.
When I remember, terror takes hold, and my body trembles in horror.
7 Why? wicked [people] do they live they grow old also do they become strong? strength.
Why do the wicked live on, growing old and increasing in power?
8 Offspring their [is] established before them with them and descendants their to eyes their.
Their descendants are established around them, and their offspring before their eyes.
9 Houses their [are] safety from fear and not [the] rod of God [is] on them.
Their homes are safe from fear; no rod of punishment from God is upon them.
10 Bull his it impregnates and not it fails it calves cow his and not it miscarries.
Their bulls breed without fail; their cows bear calves and do not miscarry.
11 They send forth like flock young boys their and children their they leap about!
They send forth their little ones like a flock; their children skip about,
12 They lift according to tambourine and harp so they may rejoice to [the] sound of a flute.
singing to the tambourine and lyre and making merry at the sound of the flute.
They spend their days in prosperity and go down to Sheol in peace. (Sheol h7585)
14 And they have said to God depart from us and knowledge of ways your not we desire.
Yet they say to God: ‘Leave us alone! For we have no desire to know Your ways.
15 What? [is the] Almighty that we will serve him and what? will we gain that we will entreat him.
Who is the Almighty, that we should serve Him, and what would we gain if we pray to Him?’
16 There! not [is] in own hand their prosperity their [the] counsel of wicked [people] it is far from me.
Still, their prosperity is not in their own hands, so I stay far from the counsel of the wicked.
17 How often? - [the] lamp of wicked [people] is it extinguished and it may come? on them calamity their pain does he apportion? in anger his.
How often is the lamp of the wicked put out? Does disaster come upon them? Does God, in His anger, apportion destruction?
18 Are they? like straw before a wind and like chaff [which] it has stolen it a storm-wind.
Are they like straw before the wind, like chaff swept away by a storm?
19 God he stores up for children his wickedness his let him repay to him so he may know.
It is said that God lays up one’s punishment for his children. Let God repay the man himself, so he will know it.
20 Let them see (own eyes his *Q(K)*) destruction his and from [the] rage of [the] Almighty let him drink.
Let his eyes see his own destruction; let him drink for himself the wrath of the Almighty.
21 For what? [is] pleasure his in household his after him and [the] number of months his they have been cut off.
For what does he care about his household after him, when the number of his months has run out?
22 ¿ To God will anyone teach knowledge and he exalted [ones] he judges.
Can anyone teach knowledge to God, since He judges those on high?
23 This [one] he will die with limb[s] of completeness his all of him [is] at ease and at ease.
One man dies full of vigor, completely secure and at ease.
24 Pails his they are full milk and [the] marrow of bones his it is watered.
His body is well nourished, and his bones are rich with marrow.
25 And this [one] he will die with a soul bitter and not he has eaten in the good.
Yet another man dies in the bitterness of his soul, having never tasted prosperity.
26 Together on dust they will lie and a maggot it will cover over them.
But together they lie down in the dust, and worms cover them both.
27 Here! I know thoughts your and [the] schemes on me you do violence.
Behold, I know your thoughts full well, the schemes by which you would wrong me.
28 For you say where? [is the] house of a noble [person] and where? [is the] tent of - [the] dwelling places of wicked [people].
For you say, ‘Where now is the nobleman’s house, and where are the tents in which the wicked dwell?’
29 ¿ Not have you asked [those who] pass by of [the] road and signs their not do you recognize?
Have you never asked those who travel the roads? Do you not accept their reports?
30 That to a day of calamity he is spared an evil [person] to a day of furi they are brought forth.
Indeed, the evil man is spared from the day of calamity, delivered from the day of wrath.
31 Who? will he tell on face his way his and [that which] he he has done who? will he repay to him.
Who denounces his behavior to his face? Who repays him for what he has done?
32 And he to [the] grave he will be borne and over a tomb someone will keep watch.
He is carried to the grave, and watch is kept over his tomb.
33 They will be sweet to him [the] clods of [the] wadi and after him every person he will follow and before him there not [is] number.
The clods of the valley are sweet to him; everyone follows behind him, and those before him are without number.
34 And how? will you comfort me vanity and answers your it remains unfaithfulness.
So how can you comfort me with empty words? For your answers remain full of falsehood.”
