Job 21
1 And he answered Job and he said.
Then Job replied,
2 Listen completely [to] speech my and let it be this consolations your.
“Listen to what I say, all [three] of you; that is the only thing that you can do that will comfort me.
3 Bear with me and I I will speak and after have spoken I you will mock.
Be patient with me, and allow me to speak. Then, after I am finished speaking, you can continue to make fun of me.
4 ¿ I to humankind [is] complaint my and if why? not will it be short spirit my.
“It is certainly not [RHQ] people against whom I am complaining, [but God] And it is certainly [RHQ] right for me to be impatient!
5 Turn to me and be appalled and put a hand over a mouth.
Look at me! Does what you see not cause you to be appalled and to put your hands over your mouths [and say no more]?
6 And if I remember [this] and I am disturbed and it takes hold of flesh my shuddering.
When I think about [what has happened to me], I am frightened and my entire body shakes.
7 Why? wicked [people] do they live they grow old also do they become strong? strength.
“[But let me ask this: ] ‘Why do wicked people continue to live, and become prosperous, and not die until they are very old?’
8 Offspring their [is] established before them with them and descendants their to eyes their.
They have their children around them, and they watch them while they [grow up and] start to live in their own houses, and they enjoy their grandchildren.
9 Houses their [are] safety from fear and not [the] rod of God [is] on them.
Wicked people live in their own houses without being afraid, and God does not punish [MTY] them.
10 Bull his it impregnates and not it fails it calves cow his and not it miscarries.
Their bulls always mate with the cows successfully, and the cows give birth to calves and never miscarry.
11 They send forth like flock young boys their and children their they leap about!
Wicked people send their young children outside [to play], and the children play [happily] like [SIM] lambs [in a pasture].
12 They lift according to tambourine and harp so they may rejoice to [the] sound of a flute.
Some children dance and sing, while others shake tambourines and play lyres, and they are happy when they hear people playing flutes.
Wicked people enjoy having good things all the time that they are alive, and they die quietly/peacefully and go down to the place of the dead. (Sheol h7585)
14 And they have said to God depart from us and knowledge of ways your not we desire.
While they are alive, they say to God, ‘Do not bother us; we do not want to know how you want us to conduct our lives!
15 What? [is the] Almighty that we will serve him and what? will we gain that we will entreat him.
Why do you, Almighty God, think that we should serve you? (What advantage do we get if we pray to you?/It is useless for us to pray to you.) [RHQ]’
16 There! not [is] in own hand their prosperity their [the] counsel of wicked [people] it is far from me.
Think about it: Wicked people think that it is because of what they have done that they have become prosperous, but I do not understand why they think like that.
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 does it happen that wicked people die [MET] before they are old?/Very seldom do wicked people die [MET] before they are old.) [RHQ] (Do they ever experience disasters?/They seldom experience disasters.) [RHQ] (Does God ever punish them because of being very angry with them?/God never punishes them because of being very angry with them.) [RHQ]
18 Are they? like straw before a wind and like chaff [which] it has stolen it a storm-wind.
[He does not blow] them away like wind blows away straw; they are never carried off by a whirlwind.
19 God he stores up for children his wickedness his let him repay to him so he may know.
You say, ‘When people have committed sins, God waits and punishes their children because of those sins;’ but [I say that] God should punish those who sin, [not their children, ] in order that the sinners will know [that it is because of their own sins that they are being punished].
20 Let them see (own eyes his *Q(K)*) destruction his and from [the] rage of [the] Almighty let him drink.
I hope/wish that wicked people will experience themselves being destroyed, that they will experience being punished by an angry Almighty God.
21 For what? [is] pleasure his in household his after him and [the] number of months his they have been cut off.
After wicked people are dead, they are not at all concerned [RHQ] about what happens to their families [MTY].
22 ¿ To God will anyone teach knowledge and he exalted [ones] he judges.
“Since God judges [everyone, ] even those that are in heaven, (who can teach God anything?/certainly no one can teach God anything.) [RHQ]
23 This [one] he will die with limb[s] of completeness his all of him [is] at ease and at ease.
Some people die while they are very healthy, while they are peaceful, when they are not afraid of anything.
24 Pails his they are full milk and [the] marrow of bones his it is watered.
Their bodies are fat; their bones are strong.
25 And this [one] he will die with a soul bitter and not he has eaten in the good.
Other people die being very miserable; they have never experienced good things happening to them.
26 Together on dust they will lie and a maggot it will cover over them.
But both rich and poor people die and are buried, and maggots eat their bodies. [Everyone dies, so it is clear that dying is not always the punishment for being wicked].
27 Here! I know thoughts your and [the] schemes on me you do violence.
“Listen, I know what you [three] are thinking. I know the evil things that you plan to do to 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].
You say, ‘What happened to the tents in which wicked people were living? The houses of evil rulers have been destroyed!’
29 ¿ Not have you asked [those who] pass by of [the] road and signs their not do you recognize?
But have you never inquired of people who travel much? Do you not believe their reports about what they have seen,
30 That to a day of calamity he is spared an evil [person] to a day of furi they are brought forth.
that wicked people usually do not suffer at the time when there are great disasters; that wicked people are the ones who are rescued when God is angry [and punishes people] [MTY]?
31 Who? will he tell on face his way his and [that which] he he has done who? will he repay to him.
There is no one [RHQ] who accuses wicked people, and there is no one who (pays them back/gives them the punishment that they deserve) for all the evil things that they have done.
32 And he to [the] grave he will be borne and over a tomb someone will keep watch.
The corpses of wicked people are carried to their graves, and people are put there to guard those graves.
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.
A huge number [HYP] of people go to the grave site. Some go in front of the procession and some come behind. And the clods of dirt thrown on the graves of those wicked people who have died are like a nice blanket.
34 And how? will you comfort me vanity and answers your it remains unfaithfulness.
“So how can you console me by talking nonsense? Every reply that you make is full of lies!”
