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Job 21
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King James Version · 1611
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Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752
2Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations.
2Hear, I beseech you, my words, and do penance.
3Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on.
3Suffer me, and I will speak, and after, if you please, laugh at my words.
4As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled?
4Is my debate against man, that I should not have just reason to be troubled?
5Mark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth.
5Hearken to me and be astonished, and lay your finger on your mouth.
6Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh.
6As for me, when I remember, I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh.
7Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?
7Why then do the wicked live, are they advanced, and strengthened with riches?
8Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes.
8Their seed continueth before them, a multitude of kinsmen, and of children's children in their sight.
9Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them.
9Their houses are secure and peaceable, and the rod of God is not upon them.
10Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf.
10Their cattle have conceived, and failed not: their cow has calved, and is not deprived of her fruit.
11They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.
11Their little ones go out like a flock, and their children dance and play.
12They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ.
12They take the timbrel, and the harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ.
13They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.
13They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment they go down to hell.
14Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.
14Who have said to God: Depart from us, we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.
15What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?
15Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what doth it profit us if we pray to him?
16Lo, their good is not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
16Yet because their good things are not in their hand, may the counsel of the wicked be far from me.
17How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and how oft cometh their destruction upon them! God distributeth sorrows in his anger.
17How often shall the lamp of the wicked be put out, and a deluge come upon them, and he shall distribute the sorrows of his wrath?
18They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.
18They shall be as chaff before the face of the wind, and as ashes which the whirlwind scattereth.
19God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know it.
19God shall lay up the sorrow of the father for his children: and when he shall repay, then shall he know.
20His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
20His eyes shall see his own destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
21For what pleasure hath he in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off in the midst?
21For what is it to him what befalleth his house after him: and if the number of his months be diminished by one half?
22Shall any teach God knowledge? seeing he judgeth those that are high.
22Shall any one teach God knowledge, who judgeth those that are high?
23One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.
23One man dieth strong, and hale, rich and happy.
24His breasts are full of milk, and his bones are moistened with marrow.
24His bowels are full of fat, and his bones are moistened with marrow.
25And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never eateth with pleasure.
25But another dieth in bitterness of soul without any riches:
26They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them.
26And yet they shall sleep together in the dust, and worms shall cover them.
27Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me.
27Surely I know your thoughts, and your unjust judgments against me.
28For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked?
28For you say: Where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked?
29Have ye not asked them that go by the way? and do ye not know their tokens,
29Ask any one of them that go by the way, and you shall perceive that he knoweth these same things.
30That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.
30Because the wicked man is reserved to the day of destruction, and he shall be brought to the day of wrath.
31Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him what he hath done?
31Who shall reprove his way to his face? and who shall repay him what he hath done?
32Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb.
32He shall be brought to the graves, and shall watch in the heap of the dead.