< Job 21 >
1 and to answer Job and to say
Then Job answered and said,
2 to hear: hear to hear: hear speech my and to be this consolation your
“Listen carefully to my words, and let this be the comfort you offer to me.
3 to lift: bear me and I to speak: speak and after to speak: speak I to mock
Put up with me, and I also will speak; 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 person? 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 astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth.
6 and if to remember and to dismay and to grasp flesh my shuddering
When I think about my sufferings, I am terrified, and trembling seizes my body.
7 why? wicked to live to proceed also to prevail strength
Why do wicked people continue to live, become old, and grow mighty 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 with them in their sight, and their offspring are established 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 breeds; it does not fail to do so; their cow gives birth and does not lose her calf prematurely.
11 to send: depart like/as flock boy their and youth their to skip about [emph?]
They send out 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 sing to the tambourine and harp and rejoice with the music 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 )
They spend their days in prosperity, and they go down quietly to Sheol. (Sheol )
14 and to say to/for God to turn aside: depart from us and knowledge way: conduct your not to delight in
They say to God, 'Depart from us for we do not wish any 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 worship him? What advantage would we get if we prayed to him?'
16 look! not in/on/with hand their goodness their counsel wicked to remove from me
See, is not their prosperity in their own hands? I have nothing to do with the advice of wicked people.
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 it that the lamp of wicked people is put out, or that their calamity comes upon them? How often does it happen that God distributes 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
How often is it that they become like stubble before the wind or like 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
You say, 'God lays up one's guilt for his children to pay.' Let him pay it himself, so that he might know his guilt.
20 to see: see (eye his *Q(K)*) ruin his and from rage Almighty to drink
Let his eyes see his own destruction, and let him 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 does he care about his family 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 anyone teach God knowledge since he judges even those who are high?
23 this to die in/on/with bone integrity his all his at ease and at ease
One man dies in his full strength, being completely quiet and at ease.
24 belly his to fill milk and marrow bone his to water: watering
His body is full of milk, and the marrow of his bones is moist.
25 and this to die in/on/with soul bitter and not to eat in/on/with welfare
Another man dies in bitterness of soul, one who has never experienced anything good.
26 unitedness upon dust to lie down: lay down and worm to cover upon them
They lie down alike in the dust; the worms cover them both.
27 look! to know plot your and plot upon me to injure
See, I know your thoughts, and the ways in which you wish to wrong me.
28 for to say where? house: home noble and where? tent tabernacle wicked
For you say, 'Where now is the house of the prince? Where is the tent in which the wicked man once lived?'
29 not to ask to pass way: road and sign: indicator their not to recognize
Have you never asked traveling people? Do you not know the evidence they can tell,
30 for to/for day calamity to withhold bad: evil to/for day fury to conduct
that the wicked man is kept from the day of calamity, and that he is led away 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 will condemn the wicked man's way to his face? Who will repay him for what he has done?
32 and he/she/it to/for grave to conduct and upon tomb to watch
Yet he will be borne to the grave; men will keep watch 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 will be sweet to him; all people will follow after him, as there were innumerable people before him.
34 and how? to be sorry: comfort me vanity and turn your to remain unfaithfulness
How then do you comfort me with nonsense, since in your answers there is nothing but falsehood?”