Job:21 Parallel Bible - WLD BAS |
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| Job 21:1 | Then Job answered, | Then Job made answer and said, |
| Job 21:2 | "Listen diligently to my speech. Let this be your consolation. | Give attention with care to my words; and let this be your comfort. |
| Job 21:3 | Allow me, and I also will speak; After 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? Why shouldn't I be impatient? | As for me, is my outcry against man? is it then to be wondered at if my spirit is troubled? |
| Job 21:5 | Look at me, and be astonished. Lay your hand on your mouth. | Take note of me and be full of wonder, put your hand on your mouth. |
| Job 21:6 | When I remember, I am troubled. Horror takes hold of my flesh. | At the very thought of it my flesh is shaking with fear. |
| Job 21:7 | "Why do the wicked live, Become old, yes, and grow mighty in power? | Why is life given to the evil-doers? why do they become old and strong in power? |
| Job 21:8 | Their child is established with them in their sight, 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 bulls breed without fail. Their cows calve, and don't miscarry. | 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. Their children dance. | They send out their young ones like a flock, and their children have pleasure in the dance, |
| Job 21:12 | They sing to the tambourine and harp, And rejoice at the sound of the pipe. | 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 prosperity. In an instant they go down to Sheol. | Their days come to an end without trouble, and suddenly they go down to the underworld. |
| Job 21:14 | They tell God, 'Depart from us, For we don't want to know about your 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? What profit should we have, if we pray to 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 | Behold, their prosperity 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 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 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 | That they are as stubble before the wind, As chaff that the storm carries away? | How frequently are they as dry stems before the wind, or as grass taken away by the storm-wind? |
| Job 21:19 | You say, 'God lays up his iniquity for his children.' Let him recompense it to himself, that he may 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 | Let his own eyes see his destruction. Let him 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 does he care for his house after him, When the number of his months is cut off? | 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 judges those who 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 dies 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 pails are full of milk. The marrow of his bones is moistened. | His buckets are full of milk, and there is no loss of strength in his bones. |
| Job 21:25 | Another dies in bitterness of soul, And never tastes of good. | And another comes to his end with a bitter soul, without ever tasting good. |
| Job 21:26 | They lie down alike in the dust, The worm covers them. | Together they go down to the dust, and are covered by the worm. |
| Job 21:27 | "Behold, I know your thoughts, The devices with which you would wrong me. | See, I am conscious of your thoughts, and of your violent purposes against me; |
| Job 21:28 | For you say, 'Where is the house of the prince? Where is the tent in which the wicked lived?' | For you say, Where is the house of the ruler, and where is the tent of the evil-doer? |
| Job 21:29 | Haven't you asked wayfaring men? Don't you know their evidences, | Have you not put the question to the travellers, and do you not take note of their experience? |
| Job 21:30 | That the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity? That they are led 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? Who shall repay him what he has 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 borne to the grave, Men shall keep watch over 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 to him. All men shall draw after him, As there were 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 | So how can you comfort me with nonsense, Seeing that in your answers there remains only 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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