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1Then Job answered:

1In response, Job said:

2“Listen carefully to my words; let this be your consolation to me.

2"Listen carefully to my words; let this encourage all of you.

3Bear with me while I speak; then, after I have spoken, you may go on mocking.

3Bear with me and let me speak! Then, after I've spoken, you'll be free to mock me.

4Is my complaint against a man? Then why should I not be impatient?

4After all, isn't my complaint against a human being? If so, why shouldn't I be impatient?

5Look at me and be appalled; put your hand over your mouth.

5Look at me, be appalled, and then shut up!

6When I remember, terror takes hold, and my body trembles in horror.

6When I think about this, I'm petrified with terror and my body shudders uncontrollably."

7Why do the wicked live on, growing old and increasing in power?

7"Why do the wicked live to reach old age and increase in power and wealth, too?

8Their descendants are established around them, and their offspring before their eyes.

8Their children grow up while they're alive, and they live to see their grandchildren.

9Their homes are safe from fear; no rod of punishment from God is upon them.

9Their houses are safe from fear, and God's chastisement never visits them.

10Their bulls breed without fail; their cows bear calves and do not miscarry.

10Their bull breeds without fail, and their cows calve without miscarriages.

11They send forth their little ones like a flock; their children skip about,

11They release their children to play like sheep; their young ones dance about,

12singing to the tambourine and lyre and making merry at the sound of the flute.

12singing with tambourines and lyres as they rejoice to the sound of flutes.

13They spend their days in prosperity and go down to Sheol in peace.

13They grow old in prosperity, as they descend peacefully into the afterlife.

14Yet they say to God: ‘Leave us alone! For we have no desire to know Your ways.

14"They say to God, 'Turn away from us! We have no desire to know your ways.

15Who is the Almighty, that we should serve Him, and what would we gain if we pray to Him?’

15Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him? Where's the profit in talking to him?'

16Still, their prosperity is not in their own hands, so I stay far from the counsel of the wicked.

16Behold! Their prosperity isn't in their control! The counsel of the wicked will remain far from me."

17How often is the lamp of the wicked put out? Does disaster come upon them? Does God, in His anger, apportion destruction?

17"How often do the wicked have their lights put out? Does calamity ever fall on them? Will God in his anger ever apportion their destruction?

18Are they like straw before the wind, like chaff swept away by a storm?

18May they become like a straw, blown away before the wind; like a chaff that's swept off by a storm.

19It is said that God lays up one’s punishment for his children. Let God repay the man himself, so he will know it.

19God stores up their iniquity to repay their children; making them repay so that they may be aware.

20Let his eyes see his own destruction; let him drink for himself the wrath of the Almighty.

20Their own eyes will see their destruction; and they'll drink the wrath of the Almighty.

21For what does he care about his household after him, when the number of his months has run out?

21What will they care for their household after them, when the number of his months comes to an end?"

22Can anyone teach knowledge to God, since He judges those on high?

22"Can God learn anything? After all, he will judge even the exalted ones.

23One man dies full of vigor, completely secure and at ease.

23Such persons will die in their full vigor, completely prosperous and secure.

24His body is well nourished, and his bones are rich with marrow.

24His buckets are filled with milk, his bone marrow is healthy.

25Yet another man dies in the bitterness of his soul, having never tasted prosperity.

25Others die with a bitter soul, never having tasted the good life.

26But together they lie down in the dust, and worms cover them both.

26They both lie down in the dust; and worms cover them."

27Behold, I know your thoughts full well, the schemes by which you would wrong me.

27"Look! I know your thoughts, your plans are going to harm me.

28For you say, ‘Where now is the nobleman’s house, and where are the tents in which the wicked dwell?’

28You ask, 'Where is the noble person's house?' and 'Where are the tents where the wicked live?'

29Have you never asked those who travel the roads? Do you not accept their reports?

29Haven't you asked travelers on the highway? Don't you accept their word

30Indeed, the evil man is spared from the day of calamity, delivered from the day of wrath.

30that the wicked person is spared from times of calamity, that he is rescued on the day of wrath?

31Who denounces his behavior to his face? Who repays him for what he has done?

31Who will expose his conduct to his face? Who will repay him for what he has done

32He is carried to the grave, and watch is kept over his tomb.

32when he is carried away to the cemetery and guardians are placed to watch his tomb?

33The clods of the valley are sweet to him; everyone follows behind him, and those before him are without number.

33The runoff from the streams will seem sweet to him; everyone will follow after him; countless crows march ahead of him.

34So how can you comfort me with empty words? For your answers remain full of falsehood.”

34How then, can you console me so worthlessly? What is left of your answers is treachery."

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