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1Then Job answered and said: | 1But Job answered and said, |
2“Keep listening to my words, and let this be your comfort. | 2Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations. |
3Bear with me, and I will speak, and after I have spoken, mock on. | 3Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on. |
4As for me, is my complaint against man? Why should I not be impatient? | 4As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled? |
5Look at me and be appalled, and lay your hand over your mouth. | 5Mark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth. |
6When I remember, I am dismayed, and shuddering seizes my flesh. | 6Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh. |
7Why do the wicked live, reach old age, and grow mighty in power? | 7Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power? |
8Their offspring are established in their presence, and their descendants before their eyes. | 8Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes. |
9Their houses are safe from fear, and no rod of God is upon them. | 9Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them. |
10Their bull breeds without fail; their cow calves and does not miscarry. | 10Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf. |
11They send out their little boys like a flock, and their children dance. | 11They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance. |
12They sing to the tambourine and the lyre and rejoice to the sound of the pipe. | 12They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ. |
13They spend their days in prosperity, and in peace they go down to Sheol. | 13They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave. |
14They say to God, ‘Depart from us! We do not desire the knowledge of your ways. | 14Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways. |
15What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? And what profit do we get if we pray to him?’ | 15What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him? |
16Behold, is not their prosperity in their hand? The counsel of the wicked is far from me. | 16Lo, their good is not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me. |
17“How often is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out? That their calamity comes upon them? That God distributes pains in his anger? | 17How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and how oft cometh their destruction upon them! God distributeth sorrows in his anger. |
18That they are like straw before the wind, and like chaff that the storm carries away? | 18They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away. |
19You say, ‘God stores up their iniquity for their children.’ Let him pay it out to them, that they may know it. | 19God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know it. |
20Let their own eyes see their destruction, and let them drink of the wrath of the Almighty. | 20His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty. |
21For what do they care for their houses after them, when the number of their months is cut off? | 21For what pleasure hath he in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off in the midst? |
22Will any teach God knowledge, seeing that he judges those who are on high? | 22Shall any teach God knowledge? seeing he judgeth those that are high. |
23One dies in his full vigor, being wholly at ease and secure, | 23One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet. |
24his pails full of milk and the marrow of his bones moist. | 24His breasts are full of milk, and his bones are moistened with marrow. |
25Another dies in bitterness of soul, never having tasted of prosperity. | 25And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never eateth with pleasure. |
26They lie down alike in the dust, and the worms cover them. | 26They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them. |
27“Behold, I know your thoughts and your schemes to wrong me. | 27Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me. |
28For you say, ‘Where is the house of the prince? Where is the tent in which the wicked lived?’ | 28For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked? |
29Have you not asked those who travel the roads, and do you not accept their testimony | 29Have ye not asked them that go by the way? and do ye not know their tokens, |
30that the evil man is spared in the day of calamity, that he is rescued in the day of wrath? | 30That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath. |
31Who declares his way to his face, and who repays him for what he has done? | 31Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him what he hath done? |
32When he is carried to the grave, watch is kept over his tomb. | 32Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb. |
33The clods of the valley are sweet to him; all mankind follows after him, and those who go before him are innumerable. | 33The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, and every man shall draw after him, as there are innumerable before him. |
34How then will you comfort me with empty nothings? There is nothing left of your answers but falsehood.” | 34How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood? |
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