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| Job 21:1 | But Job answered and said, | Then Job made answer and said, |
| Job 21:2 | Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations. | Give attention with care to my words; and let this be your comfort. |
| Job 21:3 | Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on. | Let me say what is in my mind, and after that, go on making sport of me. |
| Job 21:4 | As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled? | As for me, is my outcry against man? is it then to be wondered at if my spirit is troubled? |
| Job 21:5 | Mark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth. | Take note of me and be full of wonder, put your hand on your mouth. |
| Job 21:6 | Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh. | At the very thought of it my flesh is shaking with fear. |
| Job 21:7 | Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power? | Why is life given to the evil-doers? why do they become old and strong in power? |
| Job 21:8 | Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes. | Their children are ever with them, and their offspring before their eyes. |
| Job 21:9 | Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them. | Their houses are free from fear, and the rod of God does not come on them. |
| Job 21:10 | Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf. | Their ox is ready at all times to give seed; their cow gives birth, without dropping her young. |
| Job 21:11 | They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance. | They send out their young ones like a flock, and their children have pleasure in the dance, |
| Job 21:12 | They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ. | They make songs to the instruments of music, and are glad at the sound of the pipe. |
| Job 21:13 | They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave. | Their days come to an end without trouble, and suddenly they go down to the underworld. |
| Job 21:14 | Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways. | Though they said to God, Go away from us, for we have no desire for the knowledge of your ways. |
| Job 21:15 | What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him? | What is the Ruler of all, that we may give him worship? and what profit is it to us to make prayer to him? |
| Job 21:16 | Lo, their good is not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me. | Truly, is not their well-being in their power? (The purpose of the evil-doers is far from me.) |
| Job 21:17 | How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and how oft cometh their destruction upon them! God distributeth sorrows in his anger. | How frequently is the light of the evil-doers put out, or does trouble come on them? how frequently does his wrath take them with cords? |
| Job 21:18 | They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away. | How frequently are they as dry stems before the wind, or as grass taken away by the storm-wind? |
| Job 21:19 | God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know it. | You say, God keeps punishment stored up for his children. Let him send it on the man himself, so that he may have the punishment of it! |
| Job 21:20 | His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty. | Let his eyes see his trouble, and let him be full of the wrath of the Ruler of all! |
| Job 21:21 | For what pleasure hath he in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off in the midst? | For what interest has he in his house after him, when the number of his months is ended? |
| Job 21:22 | Shall any teach God knowledge? seeing he judgeth those that are high. | Is anyone able to give teaching to God? for he is the judge of those who are on high. |
| Job 21:23 | One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet. | One comes to his end in complete well-being, full of peace and quiet: |
| Job 21:24 | His breasts are full of milk, and his bones are moistened with marrow. | His buckets are full of milk, and there is no loss of strength in his bones. |
| Job 21:25 | And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never eateth with pleasure. | And another comes to his end with a bitter soul, without ever tasting good. |
| Job 21:26 | They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them. | Together they go down to the dust, and are covered by the worm. |
| Job 21:27 | Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me. | See, I am conscious of your thoughts, and of your violent purposes against me; |
| Job 21:28 | For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked? | For you say, Where is the house of the ruler, and where is the tent of the evil-doer? |
| Job 21:29 | Have ye not asked them that go by the way? and do ye not know their tokens, | Have you not put the question to the travellers, and do you not take note of their experience? |
| Job 21:30 | That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath. | How the evil man goes free in the day of trouble, and has salvation in the day of wrath? |
| Job 21:31 | Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him what he hath done? | Who will make his way clear to his face? and if he has done a thing, who gives him punishment for it? |
| Job 21:32 | Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb. | He is taken to his last resting-place, and keeps watch over it. |
| Job 21:33 | The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, and every man shall draw after him, as there are innumerable before him. | The earth of the valley covering his bones is sweet to him, and all men come after him, as there were unnumbered before him. |
| Job 21:34 | How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood? | Why then do you give me comfort with words in which there is no profit, when you see that there is nothing in your answers but deceit? |
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