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Job 21
Brenton's English Septuagint · Berean Standard Bible
Hear ye, hear ye my words, that I may not have this consolation from you.
“Listen carefully to my words; let this be your consolation to me.
Raise me, and I will speak; then ye shall not laugh me to scorn.
Bear with me while I speak; then, after I have spoken, you may go on mocking.
What! is my reproof of man? and why should I not be angry?
Is my complaint against a man? Then why should I not be impatient?
Look upon me, and wonder, laying your hand upon your cheek.
Look at me and be appalled; put your hand over your mouth.
For even when I remember, I am alarmed, and pains seize my flesh.
When I remember, terror takes hold, and my body trembles in horror.
Wherefore do the ungodly live, and grow old even in wealth?
Why do the wicked live on, growing old and increasing in power?
Their seed is according to [their] desire, and their children are in [their] sight.
Their descendants are established around them, and their offspring before their eyes.
Their houses are prosperous, neither [have they] any where [cause for] fear, neither is there a scourge from the Lord upon them.
Their homes are safe from fear; no rod of punishment from God is upon them.
Their cow does not cast her calf, and their [beast] with young is safe, and does not miscarry.
Their bulls breed without fail; their cows bear calves and do not miscarry.
And they remain as an unfailing flock, and their children play before [them], taking up the psaltery and harp;
They send forth their little ones like a flock; their children skip about,
and they rejoice at the voice of a song.
singing to the tambourine and lyre and making merry at the sound of the flute.
And they spend their days in wealth, and fall asleep in the rest of the grave.
They spend their days in prosperity and go down to Sheol in peace (note: Or in an instant).
Yet [such a man] says to the Lord, Depart from me; I desire not to know thy ways.
Yet they say to God: ‘Leave us alone! For we have no desire to know Your ways.
What is the Mighty One, that we should serve him? and what profit is there that we should approach him?
Who is the Almighty, that we should serve Him, and what would we gain if we pray to Him?’
For their good things were in [their] hands, but he regards not the works of the ungodly.
Still, their prosperity is not in their own hands, so I stay far from the counsel of the wicked.
Nevertheless, the lamp of the ungodly also shall be put out, and destruction shall come upon them, and pangs of vengeance shall seize them.
How often is the lamp of the wicked put out? Does disaster come upon them? Does God, in His anger, apportion destruction?
And they shall be as chaff before the wind, or as dust which the storm has taken up.
Are they like straw before the wind, like chaff swept away by a storm?
Let his substance fail [to supply] his children: [God] shall recompense him, and he shall know it.
It is said that God lays up one’s punishment for his children. Let God repay the man himself, so he will know it.
Let his eyes see his own destruction, and let him not be saved by the Lord.
Let his eyes see his own destruction; let him drink for himself the wrath of the Almighty.
For his desire is in his house with him, and the number of his months has been suddenly cut off.
For what does he care about his household after him, when the number of his months has run out?
Is it not the Lord who teaches understanding and knowledge? and does not he judge murders?
Can anyone teach knowledge to God, since He judges those on high?
One shall die in his perfect strength, and wholly at ease and prosperous;
One man dies full of vigor, completely secure and at ease.
and his inwards are full of fat, and his marrow is diffused [throughout him].
His body is well nourished, and his bones are rich with marrow.
And another dies in bitterness of soul, not eating any good thing.
Yet another man dies in the bitterness of his soul, having never tasted prosperity.
But they lie down in the earth together, and corruption covers them.
But together they lie down in the dust, and worms cover them both.
So I know you, that ye presumptuously attack me:
Behold, I know your thoughts full well, the schemes by which you would wrong me.
so that ye will say, Where is the house of the prince? and where is the covering of the tabernacles of the ungodly?
For you say, ‘Where now is the nobleman’s house, and where are the tents in which the wicked dwell?’
Ask those that go by the way, and do not disown their tokens.
Have you never asked those who travel the roads? Do you not accept their reports?
For the wicked hastens to the day of destruction: they shall be led away for the day of his vengeance.
Indeed, the evil man is spared from the day of calamity, delivered from the day of wrath.
Who will tell him his way to his face, whereas he has done [it]? who shall recompense him?
Who denounces his behavior to his face? Who repays him for what he has done?
And he has been led away to the tombs, and he has watched over the heaps.
He is carried to the grave, and watch is kept over his tomb.
The stones of the valley have been sweet to him, and every man shall depart after him, and [there are] innumerable [ones] before him.
The clods of the valley are sweet to him; everyone follows behind him, and those before him are without number.
How then do ye comfort me in vain? whereas I have no rest from your molestation.
So how can you comfort me with empty words? For your answers remain full of falsehood.”