21Job 21

1And Job answereth and saith: --Select Job 21:1

2Hear ye diligently my word, And this is your consolation.Select Job 21:2

3Bear with me, and I speak, And after my speaking--ye may deride.Select Job 21:3

4I--to man is my complaint? and if so , wherefore May not my temper become short?Select Job 21:4

5Turn unto me, and be astonished, And put hand to mouth.Select Job 21:5

6Yea, if I have remembered, then I have been troubled. And my flesh hath taken fright.Select Job 21:6

7Wherefore do the wicked live? They have become old, Yea, they have been mighty in wealth.Select Job 21:7

8Their seed is established, Before their face with them, And their offspring before their eyes.Select Job 21:8

9Their houses are peace without fear, Nor is a rod of God upon them.Select Job 21:9

10His bullock hath eaten corn, and doth not loath. His cow bringeth forth safely, And doth not miscarry.Select Job 21:10

11They send forth as a flock their sucklings, And their children skip,Select Job 21:11

12They lift themselves up at timbrel and harp, And rejoice at the sound of an organ.Select Job 21:12

13They wear out in good their days, And in a moment to Sheol go down.Select Job 21:13

14And they say to God, `Turn aside from us, And the knowledge of Thy ways We have not desired.Select Job 21:14

15What is the Mighty One that we serve Him? And what do we profit when we meet with Him?'Select Job 21:15

16Lo, not in their hand is their good, (The counsel of the wicked Hath been far from me.)Select Job 21:16

17How oft is the lamp of the wicked extinguished, And come on them doth their calamity? Pangs He apportioneth in His anger.Select Job 21:17

18They are as straw before wind, And as chaff a hurricane hath stolen away,Select Job 21:18

19God layeth up for his sons his sorrow, He giveth recompense unto him--and he knoweth.Select Job 21:19

20His own eyes see his destruction, And of the wrath of the Mighty he drinketh.Select Job 21:20

21For what is his delight in his house after him, And the number of his months cut off?Select Job 21:21

22To God doth one teach knowledge, And He the high doth judge?Select Job 21:22

23This one dieth in his perfect strength, Wholly at ease and quiet.Select Job 21:23

24His breasts have been full of milk, And marrow his bones doth moisten.Select Job 21:24

25And this one dieth with a bitter soul, And have not eaten with gladness.Select Job 21:25

26Together--on the dust they lie down, And the worm doth cover them over.Select Job 21:26

27Lo, I have known your thoughts, And the devices against me ye do wrongfully.Select Job 21:27

28For ye say, `Where is the house of the noble? And where the tent--The tabernacles of the wicked?'Select Job 21:28

29Have ye not asked those passing by the way? And their signs do ye not know?Select Job 21:29

30That to a day of calamity is the wicked spared. To a day of wrath they are brought.Select Job 21:30

31Who doth declare to his face his way? And for that which he hath done, Who doth give recompence to him?Select Job 21:31

32And he--to the graves he is brought. And over the heap a watch is kept.Select Job 21:32

33Sweet to him have been the clods of the valley, And after him every man he draweth, And before him there is no numbering.Select Job 21:33

34And how do ye comfort me with vanity, And in your answers hath been left trespass?Select Job 21:34