Job:21 Parallel Bible - WLD ASV |
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| Job 21:1 | Then Job answered, | Then Job answered and said, |
| Job 21:2 | "Listen diligently to my speech. Let this be your consolation. | Hear diligently my speech; And let this be your consolations. |
| Job 21:3 | Allow me, and I also will speak; After I have spoken, mock on. | Suffer me, and I also will speak; And after that I have spoken, mock on. |
| Job 21:4 | As for me, is my complaint to man? Why shouldn't I be impatient? | As for me, is my complaint to man? And why should I not be impatient? |
| Job 21:5 | Look at me, and be astonished. Lay your hand on your mouth. | Mark me, and be astonished, And lay your hand upon your mouth. |
| Job 21:6 | When I remember, I am troubled. Horror takes hold of my flesh. | Even when I remember I am troubled, And horror taketh hold on my flesh. |
| Job 21:7 | "Why do the wicked live, Become old, yes, and grow mighty in power? | Wherefore do the wicked live, Become old, yea, wax mighty in power? |
| Job 21:8 | Their child is established with them in their sight, Their offspring before their eyes. | Their seed is established with them in their sight, 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 safe from fear, Neither is the rod of God upon them. |
| Job 21:10 | Their bulls breed without fail. Their cows calve, and don't miscarry. | Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; Their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf. |
| Job 21:11 | They send forth their little ones like a flock. Their children dance. | They send forth their little ones like a flock, And their children dance. |
| Job 21:12 | They sing to the tambourine and harp, And rejoice at the sound of the pipe. | They sing to the timbrel and harp, And rejoice at the sound of the pipe. |
| Job 21:13 | They spend their days in prosperity. In an instant they go down to Sheol. | They spend their days in prosperity, And in a moment they go down to Sheol. |
| Job 21:14 | They tell God, 'Depart from us, For we don't want to know about your ways. | And they say unto God, Depart from us; For we desire not the knowledge of thy ways. |
| Job 21:15 | What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What profit should we have, if we pray to him?' | What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? And what profit should we have, if we pray unto him? |
| Job 21:16 | Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand: The counsel of the wicked is far from me. | Lo, their prosperity is not in their hand: The counsel of the wicked is far from me. |
| Job 21:17 | "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? | How oft is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out? That their calamity cometh upon them? That [God] distributeth sorrows in his anger? |
| Job 21:18 | That they are as stubble before the wind, As chaff that the storm carries away? | That they are as stubble before the wind, And as chaff that the storm carrieth away? |
| Job 21:19 | You say, 'God lays up his iniquity for his children.' Let him recompense it to himself, that he may know it. | [Ye say], God layeth up his iniquity for his children. Let him recompense it unto himself, that he may know it: |
| Job 21:20 | Let his own eyes see his destruction. Let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty. | Let his own eyes see his destruction, And let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty. |
| Job 21:21 | For what does he care for his house after him, When the number of his months is cut off? | For what careth he for his house after him, When the number of his months is cut off? |
| Job 21:22 | "Shall any teach God knowledge, Seeing he judges those who are high? | Shall any teach God knowledge, Seeing he judgeth those that are high? |
| Job 21:23 | One dies in his full strength, Being wholly at ease and quiet. | One dieth in his full strength, Being wholly at ease and quiet: |
| Job 21:24 | His pails are full of milk. The marrow of his bones is moistened. | His pails are full of milk, And the marrow of his bones is moistened. |
| Job 21:25 | Another dies in bitterness of soul, And never tastes of good. | And another dieth in bitterness of soul, And never tasteth of good. |
| Job 21:26 | They lie down alike in the dust, The worm covers them. | They lie down alike in the dust, And the worm covereth them. |
| Job 21:27 | "Behold, I know your thoughts, The devices with which you would wrong me. | Behold, I know your thoughts, And the devices wherewith ye would wrong me. |
| Job 21:28 | For you say, 'Where is the house of the prince? Where is the tent in which the wicked lived?' | For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? And where is the tent wherein the wicked dwelt? |
| Job 21:29 | Haven't you asked wayfaring men? Don't you know their evidences, | Have ye not asked wayfaring men? And do ye not know their evidences, |
| Job 21:30 | That the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity? That they are led forth to the day of wrath? | That the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity? That they are led forth to the day of wrath? |
| Job 21:31 | Who shall declare his way to his face? Who shall repay him what he has done? | Who shall declare his way to his face? And who shall repay him what he hath done? |
| Job 21:32 | Yet shall he be borne to the grave, Men shall keep watch over the tomb. | Yet shall he be borne to the grave, And men shall keep watch over the tomb. |
| Job 21:33 | The clods of the valley shall be sweet to him. All men shall draw after him, As there were innumerable before him. | The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, And all men shall draw after him, As there were innumerable before him. |
| Job 21:34 | So how can you comfort me with nonsense, Seeing that in your answers there remains only falsehood?" | How then comfort ye me in vain, Seeing in your answers there remaineth [only] falsehood? |
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