Job 21
1 and to answer Job and to say
And Job answered and said,
2 to hear: hear to hear: hear speech my and to be this consolation your
Hear attentively my speech, and let this replace your consolations.
3 to lift: bear me and I to speak: speak and after to speak: speak I to mock
Suffer me and I will speak; and after I have spoken, mock on!
4 I to/for man complaint my and if: surely no why? not be short spirit: temper my
As for me, is my complaint to a man? or wherefore should not my spirit be impatient?
5 to turn to(wards) me and be desolate: appalled and to set: put hand upon lip
Mark me, and be astonished, and lay the hand upon the mouth.
6 and if to remember and to dismay and to grasp flesh my shuddering
Even when I think [thereon], I am affrighted, and trembling taketh hold of my flesh.
7 why? wicked to live to proceed also to prevail strength
Wherefore do the wicked live, grow old, yea, become mighty in power?
8 seed: children their to establish: establish to/for face their with them and offspring their to/for eye their
Their seed is established with them in their sight, and their offspring before their eyes.
9 house: household their peace: well-being from dread and not tribe: staff god upon them
Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them.
10 cattle his to pass and not to abhor to escape heifer his and not be bereaved
Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf.
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, and their children dance.
12 to lift: bear like/as tambourine and lyre and to rejoice to/for voice: sound pipe
They shout to the tambour and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the pipe.
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 in a moment go down to Sheol. (Sheol h7585)
14 and to say to/for God to turn aside: depart from us and knowledge way: conduct your not to delight in
And they say unto God, Depart from us, for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways!
15 what? Almighty for to serve: minister him and what? to gain for to fall on in/on/with him
What is the Almighty that we should serve him? and what are we profited if we pray unto him?
16 look! not in/on/with hand their goodness their counsel wicked to remove from me
Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand. The counsel of the wicked be far from me!
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, and cometh their calamity upon them? Doth he distribute sorrows [to them] in his anger?
18 to be like/as straw to/for face: before spirit: breath and like/as chaff to steal him whirlwind
Do they become as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away?
19 god to treasure to/for son: child his evil: wickedness his to complete to(wards) him and to know
God layeth up [the punishment of] his iniquity for his children; he rewardeth him, and he shall know [it]:
20 to see: see (eye his *Q(K)*) ruin his and from rage Almighty to drink
His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the fury of the Almighty.
21 for what? pleasure his in/on/with house: household his after him and number month his to divide
For what pleasure should he have in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off?
22 to/for God to learn: teach knowledge and he/she/it to exalt to judge
Can any teach God knowledge? And he it is that judgeth those that are high.
23 this to die in/on/with bone integrity his all his at ease and at ease
One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet;
24 belly his to fill milk and marrow bone his to water: watering
His sides are full of fat, and the marrow of his bones is moistened;
25 and this to die in/on/with soul bitter and not to eat in/on/with welfare
And another dieth in bitterness of soul, and hath not tasted good:
26 unitedness upon dust to lie down: lay down and worm to cover upon them
Together they lie down in the dust, and the worms cover them.
27 look! to know plot your and plot upon me to injure
Lo, I know your thoughts, and the devices ye wrongfully imagine against me.
28 for to say where? house: home noble and where? tent tabernacle wicked
For ye say, Where is the house of the noble? and where the tent of the dwellings of the wicked?
29 not to ask to pass way: road and sign: indicator their not to recognize
Have ye not asked the wayfarers? and do ye not regard their tokens:
30 for to/for day calamity to withhold bad: evil to/for day fury to conduct
That the wicked is reserved for the day of calamity? They are led forth to 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 shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him what he hath done?
32 and he/she/it to/for grave to conduct and upon tomb to watch
Yet is he carried to the graves, and watch is kept over the 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 unto him; and every man followeth suit after him, as there were innumerable before him.
34 and how? to be sorry: comfort me vanity and turn your to remain unfaithfulness
How then comfort ye me in vain? Your answers remain perfidious.
