< Job 21 >

1 Then Job answered and said,
And he answered Job and he said.
2 “Listen carefully to my words, and let this be the comfort you offer to me.
Listen completely [to] speech my and let it be this consolations your.
3 Put up with me, and I also will speak; after I have spoken, mock on.
Bear with me and I I will speak and after have spoken I you will mock.
4 As for me, is my complaint to a person? Why should I not be impatient?
¿ I to humankind [is] complaint my and if why? not will it be short spirit my.
5 Look at me and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth.
Turn to me and be appalled and put a hand over a mouth.
6 When I think about my sufferings, I am terrified, and trembling seizes my body.
And if I remember [this] and I am disturbed and it takes hold of flesh my shuddering.
7 Why do wicked people continue to live, become old, and grow mighty in power?
Why? wicked [people] do they live they grow old also do they become strong? strength.
8 Their descendants are established with them in their sight, and their offspring are established before their eyes.
Offspring their [is] established before them with them and descendants their to eyes their.
9 Their houses are safe from fear; neither is the rod of God on them.
Houses their [are] safety from fear and not [the] rod of God [is] on them.
10 Their bull breeds; it does not fail to do so; their cow gives birth and does not lose her calf prematurely.
Bull his it impregnates and not it fails it calves cow his and not it miscarries.
11 They send out their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.
They send forth like flock young boys their and children their they leap about!
12 They sing to the tambourine and harp and rejoice with the music of the flute.
They lift according to tambourine and harp so they may rejoice to [the] sound of a flute.
13 They spend their days in prosperity, and they go down quietly to Sheol. (Sheol h7585)
(They complete *Q(K)*) in the good days their and in a moment Sheol they descend. (Sheol h7585)
14 They say to God, 'Depart from us for we do not wish any knowledge of your ways.
And they have said to God depart from us and knowledge of ways your not we desire.
15 What is the Almighty, that we should worship him? What advantage would we get if we prayed to him?'
What? [is the] Almighty that we will serve him and what? will we gain that we will entreat him.
16 See, is not their prosperity in their own hands? I have nothing to do with the advice of wicked people.
There! not [is] in own hand their prosperity their [the] counsel of wicked [people] it is far from me.
17 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?
How often? - [the] lamp of wicked [people] is it extinguished and it may come? on them calamity their pain does he apportion? in anger his.
18 How often is it that they become like stubble before the wind or like chaff that the storm carries away?
Are they? like straw before a wind and like chaff [which] it has stolen it a storm-wind.
19 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.
God he stores up for children his wickedness his let him repay to him so he may know.
20 Let his eyes see his own destruction, and let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
Let them see (own eyes his *Q(K)*) destruction his and from [the] rage of [the] Almighty let him drink.
21 For what does he care about his family after him when the number of his months is cut off?
For what? [is] pleasure his in household his after him and [the] number of months his they have been cut off.
22 Can anyone teach God knowledge since he judges even those who are high?
¿ To God will anyone teach knowledge and he exalted [ones] he judges.
23 One man dies in his full strength, being completely quiet and at ease.
This [one] he will die with limb[s] of completeness his all of him [is] at ease and at ease.
24 His body is full of milk, and the marrow of his bones is moist.
Pails his they are full milk and [the] marrow of bones his it is watered.
25 Another man dies in bitterness of soul, one who has never experienced anything good.
And this [one] he will die with a soul bitter and not he has eaten in the good.
26 They lie down alike in the dust; the worms cover them both.
Together on dust they will lie and a maggot it will cover over them.
27 See, I know your thoughts, and the ways in which you wish to wrong me.
Here! I know thoughts your and [the] schemes on me you do violence.
28 For you say, 'Where now is the house of the prince? Where is the tent in which the wicked man once lived?'
For you say where? [is the] house of a noble [person] and where? [is the] tent of - [the] dwelling places of wicked [people].
29 Have you never asked traveling people? Do you not know the evidence they can tell,
¿ Not have you asked [those who] pass by of [the] road and signs their not do you recognize?
30 that the wicked man is kept from the day of calamity, and that he is led away from the day of wrath?
That to a day of calamity he is spared an evil [person] to a day of furi they are brought forth.
31 Who will condemn the wicked man's way to his face? Who will repay him for what he has done?
Who? will he tell on face his way his and [that which] he he has done who? will he repay to him.
32 Yet he will be borne to the grave; men will keep watch over his tomb.
And he to [the] grave he will be borne and over a tomb someone will keep watch.
33 The clods of the valley will be sweet to him; all people will follow after him, as there were innumerable people before him.
They will be sweet to him [the] clods of [the] wadi and after him every person he will follow and before him there not [is] number.
34 How then do you comfort me with nonsense, since in your answers there is nothing but falsehood?”
And how? will you comfort me vanity and answers your it remains unfaithfulness.

< Job 21 >