Job 21
1 and to answer Job and to say
Then Job answered and said:
2 to hear: hear to hear: hear speech my and to be this consolation your
Hear diligently my speech; and let this be your consolations.
3 to lift: bear me and I to speak: speak and after to speak: speak I to mock
Suffer me, that I may speak; and after that 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? Or why should I not be impatient?
5 to turn to(wards) me and be desolate: appalled and to set: put hand upon lip
Turn unto me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth.
6 and if to remember and to dismay and to grasp flesh my shuddering
Even when I remember I am affrighted, and horror hath taketh hold on my flesh.
7 why? wicked to live to proceed also to prevail strength
Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, wax mighty in power?
8 seed: children their to establish: establish to/for face their with them and offspring their to/for eye their
Their seed is established in their sight with them, and 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, without 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 bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf.
11 to send: depart like/as flock boy their and youth their to skip about [emph?]
They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.
12 to lift: bear like/as tambourine and lyre and to rejoice to/for voice: sound pipe
They sing to the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the pipe.
13 (to end: finish *QK) in/on/with good day their and in/on/with moment hell: Sheol to descend (Sheol h7585)
They spend their days in prosperity, and peacefully they go down to the grave. (Sheol h7585)
14 and to say to/for God to turn aside: depart from us and knowledge way: conduct your not to delight in
Yet they said unto God: 'Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of Thy 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? And what profit should we have, if we pray unto Him?' —
16 look! not in/on/with hand their goodness their counsel wicked to remove from me
Lo, 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 oft is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out? that their calamity cometh upon them? that He distributeth pains in His anger?
18 to be like/as straw to/for face: before spirit: breath and like/as chaff to steal him whirlwind
That they are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm stealeth away?
19 god to treasure to/for son: child his evil: wickedness his to complete to(wards) him and to know
'God layeth up his iniquity for his children!' — let Him recompense it unto himself, that he may know it.
20 to see: see (eye his *QK) ruin his and from rage Almighty to drink
Let his own eyes see his destruction, and 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 pleasure hath he in his house after him? seeing the number of his months is determined.
22 to/for God to learn: teach knowledge and he/she/it to exalt to judge
Shall any teach God knowledge? seeing it is He that judgeth those that are high.
23 this to die in/on/with bone integrity his all his at ease and at ease
One dieth 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, and 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
And another dieth in bitterness of soul, and hath never tasted of good.
26 unitedness upon dust to lie down: lay down and worm to cover upon them
They lie down alike in the dust, and the worm covereth them.
27 look! to know plot your and plot upon me to injure
Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me.
28 for to say where? house: home noble and where? tent tabernacle wicked
For ye say: 'Where is the house of the prince? And where is the tent wherein the wicked dwelt?'
29 not to ask to pass way: road and sign: indicator their not to recognize
Have ye not asked them that go by the way; and will ye misdeem their tokens,
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 forth 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
But who shall declare his way to his face? And who shall repay him what he hath done?
32 and he/she/it to/for grave to conduct and upon tomb to watch
For he is borne to the grave, and watch is kept over his 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 are sweet unto him, and all men draw after him, as there were innumerable before him.
34 and how? to be sorry: comfort me vanity and turn your to remain unfaithfulness
How then comfort ye me in vain? And as for your answers, there remaineth only faithlessness?
