Job 21
1 Then Job replied,
and to answer Job and to say
2 “Listen to what I say, all [three] of you; that is the only thing that you can do that will comfort me.
to hear: hear to hear: hear speech my and to be this consolation your
3 Be patient with me, and allow me to speak. Then, after I am finished speaking, you can continue to make fun of me.
to lift: bear me and I to speak: speak and after to speak: speak I to mock
4 “It is certainly not [RHQ] people against whom I am complaining, [but God] And it is certainly [RHQ] right for me to be impatient!
I to/for man complaint my and if: surely no why? not be short spirit: temper my
5 Look at me! Does what you see not cause you to be appalled and to put your hands over your mouths [and say no more]?
to turn to(wards) me and be desolate: appalled and to set: put hand upon lip
6 When I think about [what has happened to me], I am frightened and my entire body shakes.
and if to remember and to dismay and to grasp flesh my shuddering
7 “[But let me ask this: ] ‘Why do wicked people continue to live, and become prosperous, and not die until they are very old?’
why? wicked to live to proceed also to prevail strength
8 They have their children around them, and they watch them while they [grow up and] start to live in their own houses, and they enjoy their grandchildren.
seed: children their to establish: establish to/for face their with them and offspring their to/for eye their
9 Wicked people live in their own houses without being afraid, and God does not punish [MTY] them.
house: household their peace: well-being from dread and not tribe: staff god upon them
10 Their bulls always mate with the cows successfully, and the cows give birth to calves and never miscarry.
cattle his to pass and not to abhor to escape heifer his and not be bereaved
11 Wicked people send their young children outside [to play], and the children play [happily] like [SIM] lambs [in a pasture].
to send: depart like/as flock boy their and youth their to skip about [emph?]
12 Some children dance and sing, while others shake tambourines and play lyres, and they are happy when they hear people playing flutes.
to lift: bear like/as tambourine and lyre and to rejoice to/for voice: sound pipe
13 Wicked people enjoy having good things all the time that they are alive, and they die quietly/peacefully and go down to the place of the dead. (Sheol h7585)
(to end: finish *Q(K)*) in/on/with good day their and in/on/with moment hell: Sheol to descend (Sheol h7585)
14 While they are alive, they say to God, ‘Do not bother us; we do not want to know how you want us to conduct our lives!
and to say to/for God to turn aside: depart from us and knowledge way: conduct your not to delight in
15 Why do you, Almighty God, think that we should serve you? (What advantage do we get if we pray to you?/It is useless for us to pray to you.) [RHQ]’
what? Almighty for to serve: minister him and what? to gain for to fall on in/on/with him
16 Think about it: Wicked people think that it is because of what they have done that they have become prosperous, but I do not understand why they think like that.
look! not in/on/with hand their goodness their counsel wicked to remove from me
17 (“How often does it happen that wicked people die [MET] before they are old?/Very seldom do wicked people die [MET] before they are old.) [RHQ] (Do they ever experience disasters?/They seldom experience disasters.) [RHQ] (Does God ever punish them because of being very angry with them?/God never punishes them because of being very angry with them.) [RHQ]
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
18 [He does not blow] them away like wind blows away straw; they are never carried off by a whirlwind.
to be like/as straw to/for face: before spirit: breath and like/as chaff to steal him whirlwind
19 You say, ‘When people have committed sins, God waits and punishes their children because of those sins;’ but [I say that] God should punish those who sin, [not their children, ] in order that the sinners will know [that it is because of their own sins that they are being punished].
god to treasure to/for son: child his evil: wickedness his to complete to(wards) him and to know
20 I hope/wish that wicked people will experience themselves being destroyed, that they will experience being punished by an angry Almighty God.
to see: see (eye his *Q(K)*) ruin his and from rage Almighty to drink
21 After wicked people are dead, they are not at all concerned [RHQ] about what happens to their families [MTY].
for what? pleasure his in/on/with house: household his after him and number month his to divide
22 “Since God judges [everyone, ] even those that are in heaven, (who can teach God anything?/certainly no one can teach God anything.) [RHQ]
to/for God to learn: teach knowledge and he/she/it to exalt to judge
23 Some people die while they are very healthy, while they are peaceful, when they are not afraid of anything.
this to die in/on/with bone integrity his all his at ease and at ease
24 Their bodies are fat; their bones are strong.
belly his to fill milk and marrow bone his to water: watering
25 Other people die being very miserable; they have never experienced good things happening to them.
and this to die in/on/with soul bitter and not to eat in/on/with welfare
26 But both rich and poor people die and are buried, and maggots eat their bodies. [Everyone dies, so it is clear that dying is not always the punishment for being wicked].
unitedness upon dust to lie down: lay down and worm to cover upon them
27 “Listen, I know what you [three] are thinking. I know the evil things that you plan to do to me.
look! to know plot your and plot upon me to injure
28 You say, ‘What happened to the tents in which wicked people were living? The houses of evil rulers have been destroyed!’
for to say where? house: home noble and where? tent tabernacle wicked
29 But have you never inquired of people who travel much? Do you not believe their reports about what they have seen,
not to ask to pass way: road and sign: indicator their not to recognize
30 that wicked people usually do not suffer at the time when there are great disasters; that wicked people are the ones who are rescued when God is angry [and punishes people] [MTY]?
for to/for day calamity to withhold bad: evil to/for day fury to conduct
31 There is no one [RHQ] who accuses wicked people, and there is no one who (pays them back/gives them the punishment that they deserve) for all the evil things that they have done.
who? to tell upon face his way: conduct his and he/she/it to make: do who? to complete to/for him
32 The corpses of wicked people are carried to their graves, and people are put there to guard those graves.
and he/she/it to/for grave to conduct and upon tomb to watch
33 A huge number [HYP] of people go to the grave site. Some go in front of the procession and some come behind. And the clods of dirt thrown on the graves of those wicked people who have died are like a nice blanket.
be sweet to/for him clod torrent: valley and after him all man to draw and to/for face: before his nothing number
34 “So how can you console me by talking nonsense? Every reply that you make is full of lies!”
and how? to be sorry: comfort me vanity and turn your to remain unfaithfulness
