Job 21
1 And he answered Job and he said.
Then Job answered,
2 Listen completely [to] speech my and let it be this consolations your.
“Listen diligently to my speech. Let this be your consolation.
3 Bear with me and I I will speak and after have spoken I you will mock.
Allow me, and I also will speak. After I have spoken, mock on.
4 ¿ I to humankind [is] complaint my and if why? not will it be short spirit my.
As for me, is my complaint to man? Why shouldn’t I be impatient?
5 Turn to me and be appalled and put a hand over a mouth.
Look at me, and be astonished. Lay your hand on your mouth.
6 And if I remember [this] and I am disturbed and it takes hold of flesh my shuddering.
When I remember, I am troubled. Horror takes hold of my flesh.
7 Why? wicked [people] do they live they grow old also do they become strong? strength.
“Why do the wicked live, become old, yes, and grow mighty in power?
8 Offspring their [is] established before them with them and descendants their to eyes their.
Their child is established with them in their sight, their offspring before their eyes.
9 Houses their [are] safety from fear and not [the] rod of God [is] on them.
Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them.
10 Bull his it impregnates and not it fails it calves cow his and not it miscarries.
Their bulls breed without fail. Their cows calve, and don’t miscarry.
11 They send forth like flock young boys their and children their they leap about!
They send out their little ones like a flock. Their children dance.
12 They lift according to tambourine and harp so they may rejoice to [the] sound of a flute.
They sing to the tambourine and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the pipe.
They spend their days in prosperity. In an instant they go down to Sheol. (Sheol h7585)
14 And they have said to God depart from us and knowledge of ways your not we desire.
They tell God, ‘Depart from us, for we don’t want to know about your ways.
15 What? [is the] Almighty that we will serve him and what? will we gain that we will entreat him.
What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What profit should we have, if we pray to him?’
16 There! not [is] in own hand their prosperity their [the] counsel of wicked [people] it is far from me.
Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand. The counsel of the wicked is far from me.
17 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.
“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 Are they? like straw before a wind and like chaff [which] it has stolen it a storm-wind.
How often is it that they are as stubble before the wind, as chaff that the storm carries away?
19 God he stores up for children his wickedness his let him repay to him so he may know.
You say, ‘God lays up his iniquity for his children.’ Let him recompense it to himself, that he may know it.
20 Let them see (own eyes his *QK) destruction his and from [the] rage of [the] Almighty let him drink.
Let his own eyes see his destruction. Let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
21 For what? [is] pleasure his in household his after him and [the] number of months his they have been cut off.
For what does he care for his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off?
22 ¿ To God will anyone teach knowledge and he exalted [ones] he judges.
“Shall any teach God knowledge, since he judges those who are high?
23 This [one] he will die with limb[s] of completeness his all of him [is] at ease and at ease.
One dies in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.
24 Pails his they are full milk and [the] marrow of bones his it is watered.
His pails are full of milk. The marrow of his bones is moistened.
25 And this [one] he will die with a soul bitter and not he has eaten in the good.
Another dies in bitterness of soul, and never tastes of good.
26 Together on dust they will lie and a maggot it will cover over them.
They lie down alike in the dust. The worm covers them.
27 Here! I know thoughts your and [the] schemes on me you do violence.
“Behold, I know your thoughts, the plans with which you would wrong me.
28 For you say where? [is the] house of a noble [person] and where? [is the] tent of - [the] dwelling places of wicked [people].
For you say, ‘Where is the house of the prince? Where is the tent in which the wicked lived?’
29 ¿ Not have you asked [those who] pass by of [the] road and signs their not do you recognize?
Haven’t you asked wayfaring men? Don’t you know their evidences,
30 That to a day of calamity he is spared an evil [person] to a day of furi they are brought forth.
that the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity, that they are led out to the day of wrath?
31 Who? will he tell on face his way his and [that which] he he has done who? will he repay to him.
Who will declare his way to his face? Who will repay him what he has done?
32 And he to [the] grave he will be borne and over a tomb someone will keep watch.
Yet he will be borne to the grave. Men will keep watch over the tomb.
33 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.
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? will you comfort me vanity and answers your it remains unfaithfulness.
So how can you comfort me with nonsense, because in your answers there remains only falsehood?”
