Job 21:1-34 LSV

[1] And Job answers and says: [2] “Hear my word diligently, || And this is your consolation. [3] Bear with me, and I speak, || And after my speaking—you may deride. [4] [Is] my complaint [against] man? And if [so], why may my temper not become short? [5] Turn to me, and be astonished, || And put hand to mouth. [6] Indeed, if I have remembered, then I have been troubled. And my flesh has taken fright. [7] Why do the wicked live? They have become old, || Indeed, they have been mighty in wealth. [8] Their seed is established, || Before their face with them, || And their offspring before their eyes. [9] Their houses [are] peace without fear, || Nor [is] a rod of God on them. [10] His bullock breeds without fail. His cow brings forth safely, and does not miscarry. [11] They send forth their sucklings as a flock, || And their children skip, [12] They lift [themselves] up at timbrel and harp, || And rejoice at the sound of a pipe. [13] They wear out their days in good, || And in a moment go down [to] Sheol. [14] And they say to God, Turn aside from us, || And the knowledge of Your ways || We have not desired. [15] What [is] the Mighty One that we serve Him? And what do we profit when we meet with Him? [16] Behold, their good [is] not in their hand || (The counsel of the wicked || Has been far from me). [17] How often is the lamp of the wicked extinguished, || And their calamity comes on them? He apportions pangs in His anger. [18] They are as straw before wind, || And as chaff a windstorm has stolen away, [19] God lays up for his sons his sorrow, || He gives repayment to him—and he knows. [20] His own eyes see his destruction, || And he drinks of the wrath of the Mighty. [21] For what [is] his delight in his house after him, || And the number of his months cut off? [22] Does [one] teach knowledge to God, || Since He judges [those] on high? [23] This [one] dies in his perfect strength, || Wholly at ease and quiet. [24] His breasts have been full of milk, || And marrow moistens his bones. [25] And this [one] dies with a bitter soul, || And has not eaten with gladness. [26] Together they lie down on the dust, || And the worm covers them over. [27] Behold, I have known your thoughts, || And the schemes against me you do wrongfully. [28] For you say, Where [is] the house of the noble? And where the tent—the dwelling places of the wicked? [29] Have you not asked those passing by the way? And do you not know their signs? [30] That the wicked is spared to a day of calamity. They are brought to a day of wrath. [31] Who declares his way to his face? And [for] that which he has done, || Who gives repayment to him? [32] And he is brought to the graves, || And a watch is kept over the heap. [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. [34] And how do you comfort me [with] vanity, || And trespass has been left in your answers?”