Job 21
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- 1Then Job answered,
- 2"Listen diligently to my speech. Let this be your consolation.
- 3Allow me, and I also will speak; After I have spoken, mock on.
- 4As for me, is my complaint to man? Why shouldn't I be impatient?
- 5Look at me, and be astonished. Lay your hand on your mouth.
- 6When I remember, I am troubled. Horror takes hold of my flesh.
- 7"Why do the wicked live, Become old, yes, and grow mighty in power?
- 8Their child is established with them in their sight, 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 bulls breed without fail. Their cows calve, and don't miscarry.
- 11They send forth their little ones like a flock. Their children dance.
- יְשַׁלְּח֣וּ
- יְשַׁלְּח֣וּye.sha.le.Chuthey send forthH7971G
- כַ֭צֹּאן
- עֲוִילֵיהֶ֑ם
- וְ֝יַלְדֵיהֶ֗ם
- יְרַקֵּדֽוּן׃
- יְשַׁלְּח֣וּ
- 12They sing to the tambourine and harp, And rejoice at the sound of the pipe.
- 13They spend their days in prosperity. In an instant they go down to Sheol.
- 14They tell God, 'Depart from us, For we don't want to know about your ways.
- 15What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What profit should we have, if we pray to him?'
- 16Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand: The counsel of the wicked is far from me.
- 17"How often is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out? That their calamity comes on them? That God distributes sorrows in his anger?
- 18That they are as stubble before the wind, As chaff that the storm carries away?
- 19You say, 'God lays up his iniquity for his children.' Let him recompense it to himself, that he may know it.
- 20Let his own eyes see his destruction. Let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
- 21For what does he care for his house after him, When the number of his months is cut off?
- 22"Shall any teach God knowledge, Seeing he judges those who are high?
- 23One dies in his full strength, Being wholly at ease and quiet.
- 24His pails are full of milk. The marrow of his bones is moistened.
- 25Another dies in bitterness of soul, And never tastes of good.
- 26They lie down alike in the dust, The worm covers them.
- 27"Behold, I know your thoughts, The devices with which you would wrong me.
- 28For you say, 'Where is the house of the prince? Where is the tent in which the wicked lived?'
- 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
- 29Haven't you asked wayfaring men? Don't you know their evidences,
- 30That the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity? That they are led forth to the day of wrath?
- 31Who shall declare his way to his face? Who shall repay him what he has done?
- 32Yet shall he be borne to the grave, Men shall keep watch over the tomb.
- 33The clods of the valley shall be sweet to him. All men shall draw 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־
- 34So how can you comfort me with nonsense, Seeing that in your answers there remains only falsehood?"
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