< Job 21 >
1 and to answer Job and to say
But Job answered and said,
2 to hear: hear to hear: hear speech my and to be this consolation your
Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations.
3 to lift: bear me and I to speak: speak and after to speak: speak I to mock
Suffer me that I may speak; and after that 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 man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled?
5 to turn to(wards) me and be desolate: appalled and to set: put hand upon lip
Mark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand on your mouth.
6 and if to remember and to dismay and to grasp flesh my shuddering
Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling takes hold on my flesh.
7 why? wicked to live to proceed also to prevail strength
Why do the wicked live, become old, yes, are 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 in their sight with them, 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 on them.
10 cattle his to pass and not to abhor to escape heifer his and not be bereaved
Their bull engenders, and fails not; their cow calves, and casts 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 take the tambourine and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ.
13 (to end: finish *Q(K)*) in/on/with good day their and in/on/with moment hell: Sheol to descend (Sheol )
They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave. (Sheol )
14 and to say to/for God to turn aside: depart from us and knowledge way: conduct your not to delight in
Therefore they say to God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of your 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 profit should we have, if we pray to him?
16 look! not in/on/with hand their goodness their counsel wicked to remove from me
See, their good is not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is 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 oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and how oft comes their destruction on them! God distributes sorrows in his anger.
18 to be like/as straw to/for face: before spirit: breath and like/as chaff to steal him whirlwind
They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carries away.
19 god to treasure to/for son: child his evil: wickedness his to complete to(wards) him and to know
God lays up his iniquity for his children: he rewards 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 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 pleasure has he in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off in the middle?
22 to/for God to learn: teach knowledge and he/she/it to exalt to judge
Shall any teach God knowledge? seeing he judges those that are high.
23 this to die in/on/with bone integrity his all his at ease and at ease
One dies in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.
24 belly his to fill milk and marrow bone his to water: watering
His breasts are full of milk, and his bones are moistened with marrow.
25 and this to die in/on/with soul bitter and not to eat in/on/with welfare
And another dies in the bitterness of his soul, and never eats with pleasure.
26 unitedness upon dust to lie down: lay down and worm to cover upon them
They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them.
27 look! to know plot your and plot upon me to injure
Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which you wrongfully imagine against me.
28 for to say where? house: home noble and where? tent tabernacle wicked
For you say, Where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked?
29 not to ask to pass way: road and sign: indicator their not to recognize
Have you not asked them that go by the way? and do you not know their tokens,
30 for to/for day calamity to withhold bad: evil to/for day fury to conduct
That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought 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 has done?
32 and he/she/it to/for grave to conduct and upon tomb to watch
Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in 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 shall be sweet to him, and every man shall draw after him, as there are innumerable before him.
34 and how? to be sorry: comfort me vanity and turn your to remain unfaithfulness
How then comfort you me in vain, seeing in your answers there remains falsehood?