Job 21 Parallel Bible Translations

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1 But Job answered and said, Then Job answered and said: Then Job replied:
2 Hear ye, hear ye my words, that I may not have this consolation from you. “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 Raise me, and I will speak; then ye shall not laugh me to scorn. 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 What! is my reproof of man? and why should I not be angry? 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 Look upon me, and wonder, laying your hand upon your cheek. 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 even when I remember, I am alarmed, and pains seize my flesh. 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 the ungodly live, and grow old even in wealth? 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 seed is according to their desire, and their children are in their sight. 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 prosperous, neither have they any where cause for fear, neither is there a scourge from the Lord upon 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 cow does not cast her calf, and their beast with young is safe, and does not miscarry. 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 And they remain as an unfailing flock, and their children play before them , taking up the psaltery and harp; 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 and they rejoice at the voice of a song. 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 And they spend their days in wealth, and fall asleep in the rest of the grave. 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 Yet such a man says to the Lord, Depart from me; I desire not to know thy ways. 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 What is the Mighty One, that we should serve him? and what profit is there that we should approach 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 For their good things were in their hands, but he regards not the works of the ungodly. 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 Nevertheless, the lamp of the ungodly also shall be put out, and destruction shall come upon them, and pangs of vengeance shall seize them. “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 And they shall be as chaff before the wind, or as dust which the storm has taken up. 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 Let his substance fail to supply his children: God shall recompense him, and 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 Let his eyes see his own destruction, and let him not be saved by the Lord. 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 his desire is in his house with him, and the number of his months has been suddenly cut off. 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 Is it not the Lord who teaches understanding and knowledge? and does not he judge murders? 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 shall die in his perfect strength, and wholly at ease and prosperous; One dies in his full vigor, being wholly at ease and secure, One person dies in full vigor, completely secure and at ease,
24 and his inwards are full of fat, and his marrow is diffused throughout him . his pails full of milk and the marrow of his bones moist. well nourished in body, bones rich with marrow.
25 And another dies in bitterness of soul, not eating any good thing. Another dies in bitterness of soul, never having tasted of prosperity. Another dies in bitterness of soul, never having enjoyed anything good.
26 But they lie down in the earth together, and corruption covers 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 So I know you, that ye presumptuously attack 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 so that ye will say, Where is the house of the prince? and where is the covering of the tabernacles of the ungodly? 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 Ask those that go by the way, and do not disown 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 For the wicked hastens to the day of destruction: they shall be led away for the day of his vengeance. 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 will tell him his way to his face, whereas he has done it ? who shall recompense him? 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 And he has been led away to the tombs, and he has watched over the heaps. 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 The stones of the valley have been sweet to him, and every man shall depart after him, and there are innumerable ones 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 How then do ye comfort me in vain? whereas I have no rest from your molestation. 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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