Job 21
1 and to answer Job and to say
Then Job answered:
2 to hear: hear to hear: hear speech my and to be this consolation your
“Listen carefully to my words; let this be your consolation to me.
3 to lift: bear me and I to speak: speak and after to speak: speak I to mock
Bear with me while I speak; then, after I have spoken, you may go on mocking.
4 I to/for man complaint my and if: surely no why? not be short spirit: temper my
Is my complaint against a man? Then why should I not be impatient?
5 to turn to(wards) me and be desolate: appalled and to set: put hand upon lip
Look at me and be appalled; put your hand over your mouth.
6 and if to remember and to dismay and to grasp flesh my shuddering
When I remember, terror takes hold, and my body trembles in horror.
7 why? wicked to live to proceed also to prevail strength
Why do the wicked live on, growing old and increasing in power?
8 seed: children their to establish: establish to/for face their with them and offspring their to/for eye their
Their descendants are established around them, and their offspring before their eyes.
9 house: household their peace: well-being from dread and not tribe: staff god upon them
Their homes are safe from fear; no rod of punishment from God is upon them.
10 cattle his to pass and not to abhor to escape heifer his and not be bereaved
Their bulls breed without fail; their cows bear calves and do not miscarry.
11 to send: depart like/as flock boy their and youth their to skip about [emph?]
They send forth their little ones like a flock; their children skip about,
12 to lift: bear like/as tambourine and lyre and to rejoice to/for voice: sound pipe
singing to the tambourine and lyre and making merry at the sound of the flute.
13 (to end: finish *Q(K)*) in/on/with good day their and in/on/with moment hell: Sheol to descend (Sheol h7585)
They spend their days in prosperity and go down to Sheol in peace. (Sheol h7585)
14 and to say to/for God to turn aside: depart from us and knowledge way: conduct your not to delight in
Yet they say to God: ‘Leave us alone! For we have no desire to know Your ways.
15 what? Almighty for to serve: minister him and what? to gain for to fall on in/on/with him
Who is the Almighty, that we should serve Him, and what would we gain if we pray to Him?’
16 look! not in/on/with hand their goodness their counsel wicked to remove from me
Still, their prosperity is not in their own hands, so I stay far from the counsel of the wicked.
17 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
How often is the lamp of the wicked put out? Does disaster come upon them? Does God, in His anger, apportion destruction?
18 to be like/as straw to/for face: before spirit: breath and like/as chaff to steal him whirlwind
Are they like straw before the wind, like chaff swept away by a storm?
19 god to treasure to/for son: child his evil: wickedness his to complete to(wards) him and to 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 to see: see (eye his *Q(K)*) ruin his and from rage Almighty to drink
Let his eyes see his own destruction; let him drink for himself the wrath of the Almighty.
21 for what? pleasure his in/on/with house: household his after him and number month his to divide
For what does he care about his household after him, when the number of his months has run out?
22 to/for God to learn: teach knowledge and he/she/it to exalt to judge
Can anyone teach knowledge to God, since He judges those on high?
23 this to die in/on/with bone integrity his all his at ease and at ease
One man dies full of vigor, completely secure and at ease.
24 belly his to fill milk and marrow bone his to water: watering
His body is well nourished, and his bones are rich with marrow.
25 and this to die in/on/with soul bitter and not to eat in/on/with welfare
Yet another man dies in the bitterness of his soul, having never tasted prosperity.
26 unitedness upon dust to lie down: lay down and worm to cover upon them
But together they lie down in the dust, and worms cover them both.
27 look! to know plot your and plot upon me to injure
Behold, I know your thoughts full well, the schemes by which you would wrong me.
28 for to say where? house: home noble and where? tent tabernacle wicked
For you say, ‘Where now is the nobleman’s house, and where are the tents in which the wicked dwell?’
29 not to ask to pass way: road and sign: indicator their not to recognize
Have you never asked those who travel the roads? Do you not accept their reports?
30 for to/for day calamity to withhold bad: evil to/for day fury to conduct
Indeed, the evil man is spared from the day of calamity, delivered from the day of wrath.
31 who? to tell upon face his way: conduct his and he/she/it to make: do who? to complete to/for him
Who denounces his behavior to his face? Who repays him for what he has done?
32 and he/she/it to/for grave to conduct and upon tomb to watch
He is carried to the grave, and watch is kept over his tomb.
33 be sweet to/for him clod torrent: valley and after him all man to draw and to/for face: before his nothing number
The clods of the valley are sweet to him; everyone follows behind him, and those before him are without number.
34 and how? to be sorry: comfort me vanity and turn your to remain unfaithfulness
So how can you comfort me with empty words? For your answers remain full of falsehood.”
