Rotherham - Job - 21

21:1  Then responded Job, and said:—

21:2  Hear ye patiently my words, and let this be your consolation:

21:3  Suffer me, that, I, may speak, and, after I have spoken, thou canst mock!

21:4  Did, I, unto man, make my complaint? Wherefore, then, should my spirit not be impatient?

21:5  Turn round to me, and be astonished, and lay hand on mouth!

21:6  When I call to mind, then am I dismayed, and there seizeth my flesh a shuddering:—

21:7  Wherefore do, lawless men, live, advance in years, even wax mighty in power?

21:8  Their seed, is established in their sight, along with them, yea their offspring, before their eyes;

21:9  Their houses, are at peace, without dread, neither is, the rod of GOD, upon them;

21:10  His bull, covereth, and causeth not aversion, His cow safely calveth, and casteth not her young;

21:11  They send forth—like a flock—their young ones, and, their children, skip about for joy;

21:12  They rejoice aloud as [with] timbrel and lyre, and make merry to the sound of the pipe;

21:13  They complete, in prosperity, their days, and, in a moment to hades, they sink down.

21:14  Yet they said unto GOD, Depart from us, and, In the knowledge of thy ways, find we no pleasure.

21:15  What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? Or what shall we profit, that we should urge him?

21:16  Lo! not in their own hand, is their welfare, The counsel of lawless men, is far from me!

21:17  How oft, the lamp of the lawless, goeth out, and their calamity, cometh upon them, Sorrows, apportioneth he in his anger;

21:18  They become as straw before the wind, and as chaff, which the storm stealeth away.

21:19  Shall, GOD, reserve, for his children, his sorrow? Let him recompense him so that he may know it;

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

21:21  For what shall be his pleasure in his house after him, when, the number of his months, is cut in twain?

21:22  Is it, to GOD, one can teach knowledge, seeing that, he, shall judge, them who are on high?

21:23  This, man dieth, in the very perfection of his prosperity, wholly tranquil and secure;

21:24  His veins, are filled with nourishment, and, the marrow of his bones, is fresh;

21:25  Whereas, this other man, dieth, in bitterness of soul, and hath never tasted good fortune:

21:26  Together, in the dust, they lie down, and, the worm, spreadeth a covering over them.

21:27  Lo! I know your plans, and the devices, wherewith ye would do me violence!

21:28  For ye say, Where is the house of the noble-minded? And where the dwelling-tent of the lawless?

21:29  Have ye not asked the passers-by in the way? And, their signs, can ye not recognise?

21:30  That, to the day of calamity, is the wicked reserved, to the day of indignant visitation, are they led.

21:31  Who can declare—to his face—his way? And, what, he, hath done, who shall recompense to him?

21:32  Yet, he, to the graves, is borne, and, over the tomb, one keepeth watch;

21:33  Pleasant to him are the mounds of the torrent-bed,—and, after him, doth every man march, as, before him, there were without number.

21:34  How then should ye comfort me with vanity, since, as for your replies, there lurketh, [in them] treachery?