Job 21
1 and to answer Job and to say
And Job answers and says:
2 to hear: hear to hear: hear speech my and to be this consolation your
“Hear my word diligently, And this is your consolation.
3 to lift: bear me and I to speak: speak and after to speak: speak I to mock
Bear with me, and I speak, And after my speaking—you may deride.
4 I to/for man complaint my and if: surely no why? not be short spirit: temper my
[Is] my complaint [against] man? And if [so], why may my temper not become short?
5 to turn to(wards) me and be desolate: appalled and to set: put hand upon lip
Turn to me, and be astonished, And put hand to mouth.
6 and if to remember and to dismay and to grasp flesh my shuddering
Indeed, if I have remembered, then I have been troubled. And my flesh has taken fright.
7 why? wicked to live to proceed also to prevail strength
Why do the wicked live? They have become old, Indeed, they have been mighty in wealth.
8 seed: children their to establish: establish to/for face their with them and offspring their to/for eye their
Their seed is established, Before their face 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] peace without fear, Nor [is] a rod of God on them.
10 cattle his to pass and not to abhor to escape heifer his and not be bereaved
His bullock breeds without fail. His cow brings forth safely, and does not miscarry.
11 to send: depart like/as flock boy their and youth their to skip about [emph?]
They send forth their sucklings as a flock, And their children skip,
12 to lift: bear like/as tambourine and lyre and to rejoice to/for voice: sound pipe
They lift [themselves] up at timbrel and harp, And rejoice at the sound of a 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 wear out their days in good, 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 to God, Turn aside from us, And the knowledge of Your ways We have not desired.
15 what? Almighty for to serve: minister him and what? to gain for to fall on in/on/with him
What [is] the Mighty One that we serve Him? And what do we profit when we meet with Him?
16 look! not in/on/with hand their goodness their counsel wicked to remove from me
Behold, their good [is] not in their hand (The counsel of the wicked Has been 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 extinguished, And their calamity comes on them? He apportions pangs 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 straw before wind, And as chaff a windstorm has stolen away,
19 god to treasure to/for son: child his evil: wickedness his to complete to(wards) him and to know
God lays up for his sons his sorrow, He gives repayment to him—and he knows.
20 to see: see (eye his *Q(K)*) ruin his and from rage Almighty to drink
His own eyes see his destruction, And he drinks of the wrath of the Mighty.
21 for what? pleasure his in/on/with house: household his after him and number month his to divide
For what [is] his delight in his house after him, And the number of his months cut off?
22 to/for God to learn: teach knowledge and he/she/it to exalt to judge
Does [one] 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
This [one] dies in his perfect strength, Wholly at ease and quiet.
24 belly his to fill milk and marrow bone his to water: watering
His breasts have been full of milk, And marrow moistens his bones.
25 and this to die in/on/with soul bitter and not to eat in/on/with welfare
And this [one] dies with a bitter soul, And has not eaten with gladness.
26 unitedness upon dust to lie down: lay down and worm to cover upon them
Together they lie down on the dust, And the worm covers them over.
27 look! to know plot your and plot upon me to injure
Behold, I have known your thoughts, And the schemes against me you do wrongfully.
28 for to say where? house: home noble and where? tent tabernacle wicked
For you say, Where [is] the house of the noble? And where the tent—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 those passing by the way? And do you not know their signs?
30 for to/for day calamity to withhold bad: evil to/for day fury to conduct
That the wicked is spared to a day of calamity. They are brought to a 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 declares his way to his face? And [for] that which he has done, Who gives repayment to him?
32 and he/she/it to/for grave to conduct and upon tomb to watch
And he is brought to the graves, And a watch is kept over the heap.
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 have been sweet to him, And he draws every man after him, And there is no numbering before him.
34 and how? to be sorry: comfort me vanity and turn your to remain unfaithfulness
And how do you comfort me [with] vanity, And trespass has been left in your answers?”
