ABP - Job - 21

21:1  And undertaking, Job says,

21:2  Hear, hear my words! that there should be to me [3from 4you 1this 2comfort].

21:3  Lift me! and I will speak, then you shall not ridicule me.

21:4  For what, is [3from man 1my 2rebuke]? or why shall I not be enraged?

21:5  O ones looking at me, wonder [2your hand 1while putting] upon your jaw.

21:6  For even if I should remember, I hurry, [3hold 1and 4the things of my 5flesh 2griefs].

21:7  Why do the impious live, and they grow old, and in riches?

21:8  Their sowing is according to their soul's desire; and their children in eyes.

21:9  Their houses prosper, and fear is not to them at all; and the whip of the lord is not upon them.

21:10  Their ox does not bring forth prematurely, [5are preserved 1and 2their 4ones 3pregnant] to have, and not to trip.

21:11  And they remain as [2sheep 1everlasting], and their children play before them,

21:12  taking up the psaltery and harp, and they are gladdened at the sound of a psalm.

21:13  And they complete [2with 3good things 1their existence], and in the rest of Hades they go to sleep.

21:14  And he says to the lord, Separate from me! [4your ways 3to know 1I do not 2want].

21:15  What is fit that we shall serve him? and what benefit, that we shall meet with him?

21:16  [2in 3hands 1For 6were not 7to him 4the 5good things]; but works of the impious he does not inspect.

21:17  But in fact, even [2of the impious 1the lamp] shall be extinguished, and there shall come upon them the final event, and pangs from them they shall have from anger.

21:18  And they will be as straw before the wind, or as a cloud of dust which [2took up 1the tempest].

21:19  May [2fail 3his sons 1his possessions]; and God shall recompense to him, and he shall know it.

21:20  May [2behold 1his eyes] his own slaughter; and by the lord may he not be delivered.

21:21  For his will is in his house with him, and the numbers of his months were divided.

21:22  Is it not the lord who is the one teaching understanding and higher knowledge? And is it not he who [2the wise 1litigates].

21:23  This one shall die in the might of his singleness of purpose, but entirely enjoying pleasure and prospering;

21:24  and his insides are full of fat, [3marrow 1and 2his] is diffused in him.

21:25  And another one comes to an end in bitterness of soul, not eating anything good.

21:26  But in one accord upon the earth they sleep, and rottenness covers them.

21:27  So as I know you, that you daringly press upon me;

21:28  that you shall say, Where is the house of the ruler? and where is the protection of the tents of the impious?

21:29  Ask the ones passing by the way, and [2their signs 1you shall not separate from].

21:30  For unto the day of destruction [3lightens 1the 2wicked one]; for the day of his anger he shall be taken away.

21:31  Who will report unto his face his way? And what he did, who shall recompense to him?

21:32  And he [2unto 3the tombs 1was carried away]; and [2upon 3the heaps 1stayed awake].

21:33  [3was sweet 4to him 1The gravel 2of the rushing stream], and after him every man shall go forth, and in front of him there are innumerable ones.

21:34  And how do you comfort me in vain? but for me to rest from you is nothing.