Job 21 Parallel Bible Translations

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1 And Job will answer and say, Then Job answered and said: Then Job replied:
2 Hearing, hear ye my speech, and this shall be 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 and I will speak; and after my word ye will mock. 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 I, is my complaint to man? and then wherefore shall not my spirit be shortened? 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 to me and be astonished, and put the hand upon the 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 And when I remembered and trembled, and horror took hold of 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 shall the unjust live? They grew old, also they were strong in power. 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 was established before their face with them, and their offspring 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 peace from fear, and the rod of God not 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 His ox passed over and will not be cast away: his heifer will escape and will not be barren. 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 will send forth their children as a flock, and their children will leap. 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 will lift up with the drum and harp, and they will rejoice at the voice of the pipe. 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 Their days glided on in good, and in a moment they will lay hold of hades. 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 And they will say to God, Depart from us; and we desired not the knowledge of 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 the Almighty that we shall serve him? and what shall we be profited if we shall supplicate to 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 Behold, their good not in the hand: the counsel of the unjust was far from me. 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 often the light of the unjust shall be extinguished, and their destruction will come upon them. He will distribute pains in his anger. “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 They shall be as straw before the wind, and as chaff the storm stole it 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 will lay up his iniquity for his sons: he will requite to him and be shall know. 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 His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink from the wrath of the Almighty. 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 his delight in his house after him, and the number of? his months were divided out? 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 Shall he teach knowledge to God? and he will judge those lifted up. 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 This shall die in the strength of his fulness, altogether tranquil and at rest. 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 sides were filled with fat, and the marrow of his bones will, be moistened. his pails full of milk and the marrow of his bones moist. well nourished in body, bones rich with marrow.
25 And this will die in the soul of bitterness, and will not eat in good. Another dies in bitterness of soul, never having tasted of prosperity. Another dies in bitterness of soul, never having enjoyed anything good.
26 They will lie down together upon the dust, and the worm shall cover over 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 Behold, I knew your purposes, and the devices ye will shake off 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 will say, Where the house of the noble one; and where the tent of the dwellings of the unjust? 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 Did ye not ask them passing over the way? and shall ye not know their signs? 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 evil one will be spared for the day of destruction; they shalt be led away to the day of wraths. 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 shall announce his way upon his face? and who shall requite to him that he did? 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 shall be led away to the graves, and shall watch over the tomb. 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 And the clods of the valley were sweet to him, and every man shall draw after him, and before him no number. 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 And how will ye comfort me in vain, and your answers remained treachery? 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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