Job 21 — LSV

21Verse 1And Job answers and says:^{Verse 2}“Hear my word diligently, || And this is your consolation.^{Verse 3}Bear with me, and I speak, || And after my speaking—you may deride.^{Verse 4}[Is] my complaint [against] man? And if [so], why may my temper not become short?^{Verse 5}Turn to me, and be astonished, || And put hand to mouth.^{Verse 6}Indeed, if I have remembered, then I have been troubled. And my flesh has taken fright.^{Verse 7}Why do the wicked live? They have become old, || Indeed, they have been mighty in wealth.^{Verse 8}Their seed is established, || Before their face with them, || And their offspring before their eyes.^{Verse 9}Their houses [are] peace without fear, || Nor [is] a rod of God on them.^{Verse 10}His bullock breeds without fail. His cow brings forth safely, and does not miscarry.^{Verse 11}They send forth their sucklings as a flock, || And their children skip,^{Verse 12}They lift [themselves] up at timbrel and harp, || And rejoice at the sound of a pipe.^{Verse 13}They wear out their days in good, || And in a moment go down [to] Sheol.^{Verse 14}And they say to God, Turn aside from us, || And the knowledge of Your ways || We have not desired.^{Verse 15}What [is] the Mighty One that we serve Him? And what do we profit when we meet with Him?^{Verse 16}Behold, their good [is] not in their hand || (The counsel of the wicked || Has been far from me).^{Verse 17}How often is the lamp of the wicked extinguished, || And their calamity comes on them? He apportions pangs in His anger.^{Verse 18}They are as straw before wind, || And as chaff a windstorm has stolen away,^{Verse 19}God lays up for his sons his sorrow, || He gives repayment to him—and he knows.^{Verse 20}His own eyes see his destruction, || And he drinks of the wrath of the Mighty.^{Verse 21}For what [is] his delight in his house after him, || And the number of his months cut off?^{Verse 22}Does [one] teach knowledge to God, || Since He judges [those] on high?^{Verse 23}This [one] dies in his perfect strength, || Wholly at ease and quiet.^{Verse 24}His breasts have been full of milk, || And marrow moistens his bones.^{Verse 25}And this [one] dies with a bitter soul, || And has not eaten with gladness.^{Verse 26}Together they lie down on the dust, || And the worm covers them over.^{Verse 27}Behold, I have known your thoughts, || And the schemes against me you do wrongfully.^{Verse 28}For you say, Where [is] the house of the noble? And where the tent—the dwelling places of the wicked?^{Verse 29}Have you not asked those passing by the way? And do you not know their signs?^{Verse 30}That the wicked is spared to a day of calamity. They are brought to a day of wrath.^{Verse 31}Who declares his way to his face? And [for] that which he has done, || Who gives repayment to him?^{Verse 32}And he is brought to the graves, || And a watch is kept over the heap.^{Verse 33}The clods of the valley have been sweet to him, || And he draws every man after him, || And there is no numbering before him.^{Verse 34}And how do you comfort me [with] vanity, || And trespass has been left in your answers?”