Job:21 Parallel Bible - KJV DBY DRV WEY |
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| Job 21:1 | But Job answered and said, | And Job answered and said, | Then Job answered, and said: | |
| Job 21:2 | Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations. | Hear attentively my speech, and let this replace your consolations. | Hear, I beseech you, my words, and do penance. | |
| Job 21:3 | Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on. | Suffer me and I will speak; and after I have spoken, mock on! | Suffer me, and I will speak, and after, if you please, laugh at my words. | |
| 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 complaint to a man? or wherefore should not my spirit be impatient? | Is my debate against man, that I should not have just reason to be troubled? | |
| Job 21:5 | Mark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth. | Mark me, and be astonished, and lay the hand upon the mouth. | Hearken to me and be astonished, and lay your finger on your mouth. | |
| Job 21:6 | Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh. | Even when I think [thereon], I am affrighted, and trembling taketh hold of my flesh. | As for me, when I remember, I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh. | |
| Job 21:7 | Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power? | Wherefore do the wicked live, grow old, yea, become mighty in power? | Why then do the wicked live, are they advanced, and strengthened with riches? | |
| Job 21:8 | Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes. | Their seed is established with them in their sight, and their offspring before their eyes. | Their seed continueth before them, a multitude of kinsmen, and of children's children in their sight. | |
| Job 21:9 | Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them. | Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of +God upon them. | Their houses are secure and peaceable, and the rod of God is not upon them. | |
| Job 21:10 | Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf. | Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf. | Their cattle have conceived, and failed not: their cow has calved, and is not deprived of her fruit. | |
| Job 21:11 | They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance. | They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance. | Their little ones go out like a flock, and their children dance and play. | |
| Job 21:12 | They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ. | They shout to the tambour and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the pipe. | They take the timbrel, and the harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ. | |
| Job 21:13 | They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave. | They spend their days in prosperity, and in a moment go down to Sheol. | They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment they go down to hell. | |
| Job 21:14 | Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways. | And they say unto ùGod, Depart from us, for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways! | Who have said to God: Depart from us, we desire not the knowledge of thy 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 Almighty that we should serve him? and what are we profited if we pray unto him? | Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what doth it profit us if we pray to him? | |
| Job 21:16 | Lo, their good is not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me. | Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand. The counsel of the wicked be far from me! | Yet because their good things are not in their hand, may the counsel of the wicked be 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 often is the lamp of the wicked put out, and cometh their calamity upon them? Doth he distribute sorrows [to them] in his anger? | How often shall the lamp of the wicked be put out, and a deluge come upon them, and he shall distribute the sorrows of his wrath? | |
| Job 21:18 | They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away. | Do they become as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away? | They shall be as chaff before the face of the wind, and as ashes which the whirlwind scattereth. | |
| Job 21:19 | God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know it. | +God layeth up [the punishment of] his iniquity for his children; he rewardeth him, and he shall know [it]: | God shall lay up the sorrow of the father for his children: and when he shall repay, then shall he know. | |
| Job 21:20 | His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty. | His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the fury of the Almighty. | His eyes shall see his own destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty. | |
| 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 pleasure should he have in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off? | For what is it to him what befalleth his house after him: and if the number of his months be diminished by one half? | |
| Job 21:22 | Shall any teach God knowledge? seeing he judgeth those that are high. | Can any teach ùGod knowledge? And he it is that judgeth those that are high. | Shall any one teach God knowledge, who judgeth those that are high? | |
| Job 21:23 | One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet. | One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet; | One man dieth strong, and hale, rich and happy. | |
| Job 21:24 | His breasts are full of milk, and his bones are moistened with marrow. | His sides are full of fat, and the marrow of his bones is moistened; | His bowels are full of fat, and his bones are moistened with marrow. | |
| Job 21:25 | And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never eateth with pleasure. | And another dieth in bitterness of soul, and hath not tasted good: | But another dieth in bitterness of soul without any riches: | |
| Job 21:26 | They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them. | Together they lie down in the dust, and the worms cover them. | And yet they shall sleep together in the dust, and worms shall cover them. | |
| Job 21:27 | Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me. | Lo, I know your thoughts, and the devices ye wrongfully imagine against me. | Surely I know your thoughts, and your unjust judgments 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 ye say, Where is the house of the noble? and where the tent of the dwellings of the wicked? | For you say: Where is the house of the prince ? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked? | |
| Job 21:29 | Have ye not asked them that go by the way? and do ye not know their tokens, | Have ye not asked the wayfarers? and do ye not regard their tokens: | Ask any one of them that go by the way, and you shall perceive that he knoweth these same things. | |
| Job 21:30 | That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath. | That the wicked is reserved for the day of calamity? They are led forth to the day of wrath. | Because the wicked man is reserved to the day of destruction, and he shall be brought to 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 shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him what he hath done? | Who shall reprove his way to his face? and who shall repay him what he hath done? | |
| Job 21:32 | Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb. | Yet is he carried to the graves, and watch is kept over the tomb. | He shall be brought to the graves, and shall watch in the heap of the dead. | |
| 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 clods of the valley are sweet unto him; and every man followeth suit after him, as there were innumerable before him. | He hath been acceptable to the gravel of Cocytus, and he shall draw every man after him, and there are innumerable before him. | |
| Job 21:34 | How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood? | How then comfort ye me in vain? Your answers remain perfidious. | How then do ye comfort me in vain, whereas your answer is shewn to be repugnant to truth ? | |
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