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 diligently to my speech. Let this be your consolation.
3 to lift: bear me and I to speak: speak and after to speak: speak I to mock
Allow 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 man? Why shouldn’t I 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. Lay your hand on your mouth.
6 and if to remember and to dismay and to grasp flesh my shuddering
When I remember, I am troubled. Horror takes hold of my flesh.
7 why? wicked to live to proceed also to prevail strength
“Why do the wicked live, become old, yes, 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 child is established with them in their sight, 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 bulls breed without fail. Their cows calve, and don’t miscarry.
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. 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 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. In an instant they 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
They tell God, ‘Depart from us, for we don’t want to know about 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? 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
Behold, their prosperity 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 often is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out, that their calamity comes on them, that 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
How often is it that they are as stubble before the wind, 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
You say, ‘God lays up his iniquity for his children.’ Let him recompense it to himself, that he may know it.
20 to see: see (eye his *Q(K)*) ruin his and from rage Almighty to drink
Let his own eyes see his destruction. 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 for 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
“Shall any teach God knowledge, since he judges those who 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 pails are full of milk. 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
Another dies in bitterness of soul, and never tastes of good.
26 unitedness upon dust to lie down: lay down and worm to cover upon them
They lie down alike in the dust. The worm covers them.
27 look! to know plot your and plot upon me to injure
“Behold, I know your thoughts, the plans with which you would wrong me.
28 for to say where? house: home noble and where? tent tabernacle wicked
For you say, ‘Where is the house of the prince? Where is the tent in which the wicked lived?’
29 not to ask to pass way: road and sign: indicator their not to recognize
Haven’t you asked wayfaring men? Don’t you know their evidences,
30 for to/for day calamity to withhold bad: evil to/for day fury to conduct
that the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity, that they are led out 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 will declare his way to his face? Who will repay him 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 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 will be sweet to him. All men will draw after him, as there were innumerable before him.
34 and how? to be sorry: comfort me vanity and turn your to remain unfaithfulness
So how can you comfort me with nonsense, because in your answers there remains only falsehood?”
