LITV - Job - 21

21:1  And Job answered and said:

21:2  Listen carefully to my speech, and let this be your comfort;

21:3  Rise with me and I shall speak; then after I have spoken, you may mock.

21:4  As for me, is my complaint to man? And why should not my spirit be short?

21:5  Turn toward me and be astonished, and put your hand on your mouth.

21:6  And if I remember, I am dismayed; and trembling seizes on my flesh.

21:7  Why do the wicked live? They grow old, and become mighty in power.

21:8  Their seed is established with them before their face, and their offspring before their eyes.

21:9  Their houses are in peace, without fear; nor is God's rod on them.

21:10  His bull passes semen and does not fail; his cow calves and does not miscarry.

21:11  They send their little ones out as a flock; and their children dance.

21:12  They lift up voice at the timbrel and lyre, and rejoice at the sound of the flute.

21:13  They spend their days in good, and in a moment go down to Sheol.

21:14  And they say to God, Depart from us, for we do not desire the knowledge of Your ways.

21:15  What is the Almighty, that we should serve Him? And what do we profit if we entreat Him?

21:16  Behold, their good is not in their hand! The counsel of the wicked is far from me.

21:17  How often is the lamp of the wicked put out, and their calamity comes on them! He shares out pangs in His anger;

21:18  they are as straw before the wind, and as chaff that the tempest steals away.

21:19  God stores up his iniquity for his sons; He repays him, and he knows.

21:20  His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty.

21:21  For what is his delight in his house after him, and his number of months is cut off.

21:22  Shall any teach God knowledge, since He shall judge the exalted?

21:23  One dies in his full strength, wholly secure and at ease;

21:24  his sides are full of milk, and his bones are wet with marrow.

21:25  And another dies with bitter soul, and never eats with pleasure;

21:26  they lie down together on the dust, and the worms shall cover over them.

21:27  Behold, I know your thoughts, and the plots you would wrongfully do against me;

21:28  for you say, Where is the house of the noble, and where the tent, the dwellings of the wicked?

21:29  Did you not ask those who go along the highway; and do you not know their signs?

21:30  For the wicked is kept for the day of calamity; they shall be brought to the day of wrath.

21:31  Who shall declare his way to his face? And who repays him for what he has done?

21:32  Yet he shall be brought to the graves, and watch shall be kept over his tomb.

21:33  And the clods of the valley shall be sweet to him; and every man shall draw after him; and there is not any number before him.

21:34  How then do you comfort me with vanity? Yea, in your answers remains treachery.