Job 21 — TOJB

21Verse 1But Iyov answered and said,^{Verse 2}Hear diligently my speech,
and let this be your tanechumot (consolations).
^{Verse 3}Bear with me that I may speak;
and achar (after) that I have spoken, mock on.
^{Verse 4}As for me, is my complaint to adam (mortals)?
Or why should my ruach not become impatient?
^{Verse 5}Look at me, and be astonished,
and lay your yad upon your peh (mouth).
^{Verse 6}Even when I remember I am afraid,
and trembling taketh hold on my basar.^{Verse 7}Madu'a (why) do the resha'im live,
become old, yea, are mighty in power?
^{Verse 8}Their zera is established in their sight with them,
and their offspring before their eyes.
^{Verse 9}Their batim (houses) are shalom from pachad;
neither is the shevet Eloah upon them.
^{Verse 10}Their shor (bull) breeds, and faileth not;
their cow calveth, and doth not miscarry her calf.
^{Verse 11}They send forth their little ones like a tzon,
and their yeladim jump about.
^{Verse 12}They sing to the tambourine and kinnor,
and rejoice at the sound of the flute.
^{Verse 13}They spend their yamim in tov,
and in a moment go down to Sheol.
^{Verse 14}Therefore they say unto El, Depart from us;
for we desire not the da'as of Thy ways.
^{Verse 15}What is Shaddai, that we should serve Him?
And what profit should we have, if we importune Him?
^{Verse 16}Lo, their tov is not in their yad;
the etzah (counsel, scheme) of the resha'im is far from me.^{Verse 17}How oft is the ner (light) of the resha'im put out!
And how oft cometh their destruction upon them
and He distributeth pains in His anger.
^{Verse 18}They are as straw before the ruach,
and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.
^{Verse 19}Eloah layeth up his iniquity for his banim;
He payeth him back, and he shall know it.
^{Verse 20}His eyes shall see his destruction,
and he shall drink of the wrath of Shaddai.
^{Verse 21}For what pleasure hath he in his bais after him,
when the mispar (number) of his months is cut off?^{Verse 22}Shall any teach El da'as,
seeing He judgeth those that are on high?
^{Verse 23}Zeh (this one) dieth in his full prosperity,
being wholly at ease and secure.
^{Verse 24}His troughs are full of cholov,
and his atzmot are moistened with marrow.
^{Verse 25}And another dieth in the marah (bitterness) of his nefesh,
and never eateth with pleasure.
^{Verse 26}They shall lie down alike in the aphar,
and the worms shall cover them.^{Verse 27}Behold, I know your machshevot,
and the stratagems which ye wrongfully imagine against me.
^{Verse 28}For ye say, Where is the bais of the tyrant?
And where are the ohel mishkenot of the resha'im?
^{Verse 29}Have ye not asked them that travel the derech?
And do ye not accept their testimony,
^{Verse 30}That the rah is spared in the yom eid (day of calamity)?
They shall be rescued in the yom avarot (day of wrath).
^{Verse 31}Who shall declare his derech to his face?
And who shall repay him what he hath done?
^{Verse 32}Yet shall he be brought to the grave,
and shall remain in the gadish (gravemound).
^{Verse 33}The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him,
and kol adam shall draw after him,
as there are innumerable before him.
^{Verse 34}How then comfort ye me with hevel (empty nothings),
seeing in your answers there is nothing left but falsehood?