< Job 21 >

1 Respondens autem Job, dixit:
and to answer Job and to say
2 Audite, quæso, sermones meos, et agite pœnitentiam.
to hear: hear to hear: hear speech my and to be this consolation your
3 Sustinete me, et ego loquar: et post mea, si videbitur, verba, ridete.
to lift: bear me and I to speak: speak and after to speak: speak I to mock
4 Numquid contra hominem disputatio mea est, ut merito non debeam contristari?
I to/for man complaint my and if: surely no why? not be short spirit: temper my
5 Attendite me et obstupescite, et superponite digitum ori vestro.
to turn to(wards) me and be desolate: appalled and to set: put hand upon lip
6 Et ego, quando recordatus fuero, pertimesco, et concutit carnem meam tremor.
and if to remember and to dismay and to grasp flesh my shuddering
7 Quare ergo impii vivunt, sublevati sunt, confortatique divitiis?
why? wicked to live to proceed also to prevail strength
8 Semen eorum permanet coram eis: propinquorum turba et nepotum in conspectu eorum.
seed: children their to establish: establish to/for face their with them and offspring their to/for eye their
9 Domus eorum securæ sunt et pacatæ, et non est virga Dei super illos.
house: household their peace: well-being from dread and not tribe: staff god upon them
10 Bos eorum concepit, et non abortivit: vacca peperit, et non est privata fœtu suo.
cattle his to pass and not to abhor to escape heifer his and not be bereaved
11 Egrediuntur quasi greges parvuli eorum, et infantes eorum exultant lusibus.
to send: depart like/as flock boy their and youth their to skip about [emph?]
12 Tenent tympanum et citharam, et gaudent ad sonitum organi.
to lift: bear like/as tambourine and lyre and to rejoice to/for voice: sound pipe
13 Ducunt in bonis dies suos, et in puncto ad inferna descendunt. (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 Qui dixerunt Deo: Recede a nobis, et scientiam viarum tuarum nolumus.
and to say to/for God to turn aside: depart from us and knowledge way: conduct your not to delight in
15 Quis est Omnipotens, ut serviamus ei? et quid nobis prodest si oraverimus illum?
what? Almighty for to serve: minister him and what? to gain for to fall on in/on/with him
16 Verumtamen quia non sunt in manu eorum bona sua, consilium impiorum longe sit a me.
look! not in/on/with hand their goodness their counsel wicked to remove from me
17 Quoties lucerna impiorum extinguetur, et superveniet eis inundatio, et dolores dividet furoris sui?
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 Erunt sicut paleæ ante faciem venti, et sicut favilla quam turbo dispergit.
to be like/as straw to/for face: before spirit: breath and like/as chaff to steal him whirlwind
19 Deus servabit filiis illius dolorem patris, et cum reddiderit, tunc sciet.
god to treasure to/for son: child his evil: wickedness his to complete to(wards) him and to know
20 Videbunt oculi ejus interfectionem suam, et de furore Omnipotentis bibet.
to see: see (eye his *Q(K)*) ruin his and from rage Almighty to drink
21 Quid enim ad eum pertinet de domo sua post se, et si numerus mensium ejus dimidietur?
for what? pleasure his in/on/with house: household his after him and number month his to divide
22 Numquid Deus docebit quispiam scientiam, qui excelsos judicat?
to/for God to learn: teach knowledge and he/she/it to exalt to judge
23 Iste moritur robustus et sanus, dives et felix:
this to die in/on/with bone integrity his all his at ease and at ease
24 viscera ejus plena sunt adipe, et medullis ossa illius irrigantur:
belly his to fill milk and marrow bone his to water: watering
25 alius vero moritur in amaritudine animæ absque ullis opibus:
and this to die in/on/with soul bitter and not to eat in/on/with welfare
26 et tamen simul in pulvere dormient, et vermes operient eos.
unitedness upon dust to lie down: lay down and worm to cover upon them
27 Certe novi cogitationes vestras, et sententias contra me iniquas.
look! to know plot your and plot upon me to injure
28 Dicitis enim: Ubi est domus principis? et ubi tabernacula impiorum?
for to say where? house: home noble and where? tent tabernacle wicked
29 Interrogate quemlibet de viatoribus, et hæc eadem illum intelligere cognoscetis:
not to ask to pass way: road and sign: indicator their not to recognize
30 quia in diem perditionis servatur malus, et ad diem furoris ducetur.
for to/for day calamity to withhold bad: evil to/for day fury to conduct
31 Quis arguet coram eo viam ejus? et quæ fecit, quis reddet illi?
who? to tell upon face his way: conduct his and he/she/it to make: do who? to complete to/for him
32 Ipse ad sepulchra ducetur, et in congerie mortuorum vigilabit.
and he/she/it to/for grave to conduct and upon tomb to watch
33 Dulcis fuit glareis Cocyti, et post se omnem hominem trahet, et ante se innumerabiles.
be sweet to/for him clod torrent: valley and after him all man to draw and to/for face: before his nothing number
34 Quomodo igitur consolamini me frustra, cum responsio vestra repugnare ostensa sit veritati?
and how? to be sorry: comfort me vanity and turn your to remain unfaithfulness

< Job 21 >