Job 21
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- 1And Job answered and said,
- 2Hear attentively my speech, and let this replace your consolations.
- 3Suffer me and I will speak; and after I have spoken, mock on!
- 4As for me, is my complaint to a man? or wherefore should not my spirit be impatient?
- 5Mark me, and be astonished, and lay the hand upon the mouth.
- 6Even when I think [supplied: thereon], I am affrighted, and trembling taketh hold of my flesh.
- 7Wherefore do the wicked live, grow old, yea, become mighty in power?
- 8Their seed is established with them in their sight, and their offspring before their eyes.
- זַרְעָ֤ם
- נָכ֣וֹן
- נָכ֣וֹןna.Khon[is] establishedH3559H
- לִפְנֵיהֶ֣ם
- עִמָּ֑ם
- וְ֝צֶאֱצָאֵיהֶ֗ם
- לְעֵינֵיהֶֽם׃
- 9Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of +God upon them.
- 10Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf.
- 11They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.
- יְשַׁלְּח֣וּ
- יְשַׁלְּח֣וּye.sha.le.Chuthey send forthH7971G
- כַ֭צֹּאן
- עֲוִילֵיהֶ֑ם
- וְ֝יַלְדֵיהֶ֗ם
- יְרַקֵּדֽוּן׃
- יְשַׁלְּח֣וּ
- 12They shout to the tambour and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the pipe.
- 13They spend their days in prosperity, and in a moment go down to Sheol.
- 14And they say unto God, Depart from us, for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways!
- 15What is the Almighty that we should serve him? and what are we profited if we pray unto him?
- 16Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand. The counsel of the wicked be far from me!
- 17How often is the lamp of the wicked put out, and cometh their calamity upon them? Doth he distribute sorrows [supplied: to them] in his anger?
- 18Do they become as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away?
- 19+God layeth up [supplied: the punishment of] his iniquity for his children; he rewardeth him, and he shall know [supplied: it]:
- 20His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the fury of the Almighty.
- 21For what pleasure should he have in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off?
- 22Can any teach God knowledge? And he it is that judgeth those that are high.
- 23One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet;
- 24His sides are full of fat, and the marrow of his bones is moistened;
- 25And another dieth in bitterness of soul, and hath not tasted good:
- 26Together they lie down in the dust, and the worms cover them.
- 27Lo, I know your thoughts, and the devices ye wrongfully imagine against me.
- 28For ye say, Where is the house of the noble? and where the tent of the dwellings of the wicked?
- כִּ֤י
- כִּ֤יkiforH3588A
- תֹֽאמְר֗וּ
- תֹֽאמְר֗וּto.me.Ruyou sayH0559
- אַיֵּ֥ה
- אַיֵּ֥ה'ai.Yehwhere?H0346
- בֵית־
- בֵיתveit-[is the] house ofH1004B
- נָדִ֑יב
- נָדִ֑יבna.Diva noble [person]H5081H
- וְ֝אַיֵּ֗ה
- אֹ֤הֶל׀
- אֹ֤הֶל'O.hel[is the] tent ofH0168G
- מִשְׁכְּנ֬וֹת
- מִשְׁכְּנ֬וֹתmish.ke.Not[the] dwelling places ofH4908
- רְשָׁעִֽים׃
- רְשָׁעִֽיםre.sha.'Imwicked [people]H7563
- כִּ֤י
- 29Have ye not asked the wayfarers? and do ye not regard their tokens:
- 30That the wicked is reserved for the day of calamity? They are led forth to the day of wrath.
- 31Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him what he hath done?
- 32Yet is he carried to the graves, and watch is kept over the tomb.
- 33The clods of the valley are sweet unto him; and every man followeth suit after him, as there were innumerable before him.
- מָֽתְקוּ־
- מָֽתְקוּma.te.ku-they will be sweetH4985
- ל֗וֹ
- רִגְבֵ֫י
- רִגְבֵ֫יrig.Vei[the] clods ofH7263
- נָ֥חַל
- נָ֥חַלNa.chal[the] wadiH5158N
- וְ֭אַחֲרָיו
- כָּל־
- כָּלkol-everyH3605
- אָדָ֣ם
- אָדָ֣ם'a.DampersonH0120G
- יִמְשׁ֑וֹךְ
- יִמְשׁ֑וֹךְyim.Shokhhe will followH4900
- וּ֝לְפָנָ֗יו
- אֵ֣ין
- אֵ֣ין'einthere notH0369
- מִסְפָּֽר׃
- מִסְפָּֽרmis.Par[is] numberH4557
- מָֽתְקוּ־
- 34How then comfort ye me in vain? Your answers remain perfidious.
Words in italics were supplied by the translators.
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