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1 Iob aunswered, and saide: Then Job answered and said: Then Job replied:
2 O heare diligently my wordes, and that shalbe in steede of your consolations, “Keep listening to my words, and let this be your comfort. “Listen carefully to my words; let this be the consolation you give me.
3 Suffer me that I may speake, and when I haue spoken mocke on. Bear with me, and I will speak, and after I have spoken, mock on. Bear with me while I speak, and after I have spoken, mock on.
4 Is it for mans sake that I make this disputation? Which if it were so, shoulde not my spirite then be in sore trouble? As for me, is my complaint against man? Why should I not be impatient? “Is my complaint directed to a human being? Why should I not be impatient?
5 Marke me well and be abashed, and lay your hande vpon your mouth. Look at me and be appalled, and lay your hand over your mouth. Look at me and be appalled; clap your hand over your mouth.
6 For when I consider my selfe I am afrayde, and my fleshe is smitten with feare. When I remember, I am dismayed, and shuddering seizes my flesh. When I think about this, I am terrified; trembling seizes my body.
7 Wherefore do wicked men liue, come to their olde age, and increase in richesse? Why do the wicked live, reach old age, and grow mighty in power? Why do the wicked live on, growing old and increasing in power?
8 Their children lyue in their sight, and their generation before their eyes. Their offspring are established in their presence, and their descendants before their eyes. They see their children established around them, their offspring before their eyes.
9 Their houses are safe from all feare, and the rod of God is not vpon them. Their houses are safe from fear, and no rod of God is upon them. Their homes are safe and free from fear; the rod of God is not on them.
10 Their bullocke gendreth and that not out of time, their cowe calueth and is not vnfruitfull. Their bull breeds without fail; their cow calves and does not miscarry. Their bulls never fail to breed; their cows calve and do not miscarry.
11 They sende foorth their children by flockes, & their sonnes leade the daunce. They send out their little boys like a flock, and their children dance. They send forth their children as a flock; their little ones dance about.
12 They beare with them tabrets and harpes, and reioyce in the sounde of the organs. They sing to the tambourine and the lyre and rejoice to the sound of the pipe. They sing to the music of timbrel and lyre; they make merry to the sound of the pipe.
13 They spend their dayes in wealthines, but sodainely they go downe to the graue. They spend their days in prosperity, and in peace they go down to Sheol. They spend their years in prosperity and go down to the grave in peace.
14 They say also vnto God: Go from vs, we desire not the knowledge of thy wayes. They say to God, ‘Depart from us! We do not desire the knowledge of your ways. Yet they say to God, ‘Leave us alone! We have no desire to know your ways.
15 Who is the almightie that we should serue him? And what profite should we haue if we should pray vnto him? What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? And what profit do we get if we pray to him?’ Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What would we gain by praying to him?’
16 Lo, there is vtterly no goodnesse in their hande, therefore wyll I not haue to do with the counsaile of the vngodly. Behold, is not their prosperity in their hand? The counsel of the wicked is far from me. But their prosperity is not in their own hands, so I stand aloof from the plans of the wicked.
17 How oft shall the candell of the wicked be put out, and their destruction come vpon them? O what sorowe shall God geue them for their part in his wrath? “How often is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out? That their calamity comes upon them? That God distributes pains in his anger? “Yet how often is the lamp of the wicked snuffed out? How often does calamity come upon them, the fate God allots in his anger?
18 Yea, they shalbe euen as hay before the winde, and as chaffe that the storme carieth away. That they are like straw before the wind, and like chaff that the storm carries away? How often are they like straw before the wind, like chaff swept away by a gale?
19 God wyll lay vp the sorowe of the father for his children: & when he rewardeth him, he shall know it. You say, ‘God stores up their iniquity for their children.’ Let him pay it out to them, that they may know it. It is said, ‘God stores up the punishment of the wicked for their children.’ Let him repay the wicked, so that they themselves will experience it!
20 Their owne miserie shal they see with their eyes, and drinke of the fearefull wrath of the almightie. Let their own eyes see their destruction, and let them drink of the wrath of the Almighty. Let their own eyes see their destruction; let them drink the cup of the wrath of the Almighty.
21 For what careth he for his house after his death, when the number of his monethes is cut short? For what do they care for their houses after them, when the number of their months is cut off? For what do they care about the families they leave behind when their allotted months come to an end?
22 Seeing God hath the highest power of all, who can teache him any knowledge? Will any teach God knowledge, seeing that he judges those who are on high? “Can anyone teach knowledge to God, since he judges even the highest?
23 One dyeth in his full strength, being in all ease and prosperitie, One dies in his full vigor, being wholly at ease and secure, One person dies in full vigor, completely secure and at ease,
24 His breastes are full of milke, and his bones runne full of marowe. his pails full of milk and the marrow of his bones moist. well nourished in body, bones rich with marrow.
25 Another dyeth in the bitternes of his soule, and neuer eateth with pleasure. Another dies in bitterness of soul, never having tasted of prosperity. Another dies in bitterness of soul, never having enjoyed anything good.
26 They shall sleepe both alyke in the earth, and the wormes shall couer them. They lie down alike in the dust, and the worms cover them. Side by side they lie in the dust, and worms cover them both.
27 Beholde, I know what ye thinke, yea and the subtiltie that ye imagine against me. “Behold, I know your thoughts and your schemes to wrong me. “I know full well what you are thinking, the schemes by which you would wrong me.
28 For ye say where is the princes palace? and where is the dwelling of the vngodly? For you say, ‘Where is the house of the prince? Where is the tent in which the wicked lived?’ You say, ‘Where now is the house of the great, the tents where the wicked lived?’
29 Haue ye not asked them that go by the way? Doubtlesse ye cannot denie their tokens, Have you not asked those who travel the roads, and do you not accept their testimony Have you never questioned those who travel? Have you paid no regard to their accounts—
30 That the wicked is kept vnto the day of destruction, and the vngodly shalbe brought foorth to the day of wrath. that the evil man is spared in the day of calamity, that he is rescued in the day of wrath? that the wicked are spared from the day of calamity, that they are delivered from the day of wrath?
31 Who dare declare his way to his face? who wil rewarde him for that he doth? Who declares his way to his face, and who repays him for what he has done? Who denounces their conduct to their face? Who repays them for what they have done?
32 Yet shall he be brought to his graue, and dwell among the heape of the dead. When he is carried to the grave, watch is kept over his tomb. They are carried to the grave, and watch is kept over their tombs.
33 Then shal the slymie valley be sweet vnto him, all men also must folowe him, as there are innumerable gone before him. The clods of the valley are sweet to him; all mankind follows after him, and those who go before him are innumerable. The soil in the valley is sweet to them; everyone follows after them, and a countless throng goes before them.
34 Howe vayne then is the comfort that ye geue me, seyng falshood remayneth in all your aunsweres? How then will you comfort me with empty nothings? There is nothing left of your answers but falsehood.” “So how can you console me with your nonsense? Nothing is left of your answers but falsehood!”
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