Job 21 Darby Translation
Audio: World English Bible (WEB), read by Winfred W. Henson · About the recordings
1 And Job answered and said,
1 Then Job answered,
2 Hear attentively my speech, and let this replace your consolations.
2 “Listen diligently to my speech. Let this be your consolation.
3 Suffer me and I will speak; and after I have spoken, mock on!
3 Allow me, and I also will speak. After I have spoken, mock on.
4 As for me, is my complaint to a man? or wherefore should not my spirit be impatient?
4 As for me, is my complaint to man? Why shouldn’t I be impatient?
5 Mark me, and be astonished, and lay the hand upon the mouth.
5 Look at me, and be astonished. Lay your hand on your mouth.
6 Even when I think [thereon], I am affrighted, and trembling taketh hold of my flesh.
6 When I remember, I am troubled. Horror takes hold of my flesh.
7 Wherefore do the wicked live, grow old, yea, become mighty in power?
7 “Why do the wicked live, become old, yes, and grow mighty in power?
8 Their seed is established with them in their sight, and their offspring before their eyes.
8 Their child is established with them in their sight, their offspring before their eyes.
9 Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them.
9 Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them.
10 Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf.
10 Their bulls breed without fail. Their cows calve, and don’t miscarry.
11 They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.
11 They send out their little ones like a flock. Their children dance.
12 They shout to the tambour and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the pipe.
12 They sing to the tambourine and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the pipe.
13 They spend their days in prosperity, and in a moment go down to Sheol.
13 They spend their days in prosperity. In an instant they go down to Sheol.
14 And they say unto God, Depart from us, for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways!
14 They tell God, ‘Depart from us, for we don’t want to know about your ways.
15 What is the Almighty that we should serve him? and what are we profited if we pray unto him?
15 What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What profit should we have, if we pray to him?’
16 Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand. The counsel of the wicked be far from me!
16 Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand. The counsel of the wicked is far from me.
17 How often is the lamp of the wicked put out, and cometh their calamity upon them? Doth he distribute sorrows [to them] in his anger?
17 “How often is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out, that their calamity comes on them, that God distributes sorrows in his anger?
18 Do they become as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away?
18 How often is it that they are as stubble before the wind, as chaff that the storm carries away?
19 God layeth up [the punishment of] his iniquity for his children; he rewardeth him, and he shall know [it]:
19 You say, ‘God lays up his iniquity for his children.’ Let him recompense it to himself, that he may know it.
20 His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the fury of the Almighty.
20 Let his own eyes see his destruction. Let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
21 For what pleasure should he have in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off?
21 For what does he care for his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off?
22 Can any teach God knowledge? And he it is that judgeth those that are high.
22 “Shall any teach God knowledge, since he judges those who are high?
23 One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet;
23 One dies in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.
24 His sides are full of fat, and the marrow of his bones is moistened;
24 His pails are full of milk. The marrow of his bones is moistened.
25 And another dieth in bitterness of soul, and hath not tasted good:
25 Another dies in bitterness of soul, and never tastes of good.
26 Together they lie down in the dust, and the worms cover them.
26 They lie down alike in the dust. The worm covers them.
27 Lo, I know your thoughts, and the devices ye wrongfully imagine against me.
27 “Behold, I know your thoughts, the plans with which you would wrong me.
28 For ye say, Where is the house of the noble? and where the tent of the dwellings of the wicked?
28 For you say, ‘Where is the house of the prince? Where is the tent in which the wicked lived?’
29 Have ye not asked the wayfarers? and do ye not regard their tokens:
29 Haven’t you asked wayfaring men? Don’t you know their evidences,
30 That the wicked is reserved for the day of calamity? They are led forth to the day of wrath.
30 that the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity, that they are led out to the day of wrath?
31 Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him what he hath done?
31 Who will declare his way to his face? Who will repay him what he has done?
32 Yet is he carried to the graves, and watch is kept over the tomb.
32 Yet he will be borne to the grave. Men will keep watch over the tomb.
33 The clods of the valley are sweet unto him; and every man followeth suit after him, as there were innumerable before him.
33 The clods of the valley will be sweet to him. All men will draw after him, as there were innumerable before him.
34 How then comfort ye me in vain? Your answers remain perfidious.
34 So how can you comfort me with nonsense, because in your answers there remains only falsehood?”
Cross references (33)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 2 Hebrews 2:1; Job 15:11; Isaiah 55:2; Job 13:3–4; Job 33:31–33
- 3 Job 17:2; Job 16:10; Job 16:20; Job 13:13; Job 12:4–5
- 4 Psalm 142:2–3; Psalm 42:11; Psalm 102:1; Psalm 22:1–3; Job 10:1–2
- 5 Job 40:4; Job 29:9; Judges 18:19; Proverbs 30:32; Job 19:20–21
- 6 Habakkuk 3:16; Psalm 119:120; Psalm 77:3; Lamentations 3:19–20; Psalm 88:15
- 7 Psalm 73:3–12; Job 12:6; Psalm 37:35; Jeremiah 12:1–3; Habakkuk 1:13
- 8 Proverbs 17:6; Psalm 17:14; Job 20:28; Job 20:10; Job 18:19
- 9 Psalm 73:5; Job 9:34; Job 18:11; Psalm 73:19; Isaiah 57:19–21
- 10 Exodus 23:26; Ecclesiastes 9:1–2; Deuteronomy 28:11; Luke 12:16–21; Deuteronomy 7:13–14
- 11 Psalm 127:3–5; Psalm 107:41
- 12 Amos 6:4–6; Genesis 4:21; Isaiah 5:12; Genesis 31:27; Isaiah 22:13
- 13 Job 36:11; Psalm 73:4; Luke 12:19–20; Matthew 24:38–39; Luke 17:28–29
- 14 Job 22:17; Romans 8:7; Psalm 10:4; 2 Thessalonians 2:10–12; John 15:23–24
- 15 Exodus 5:2; Job 34:9; Malachi 1:13–14; Psalm 12:4; Isaiah 30:11
- 16 Job 22:18; Psalm 1:1; Proverbs 1:10; Psalm 52:5–7; Psalm 49:6–7
- 17 Job 18:5–6; Proverbs 20:20; Proverbs 13:9; Proverbs 24:20; Job 18:18
- 18 Psalm 1:4; Psalm 83:13; Job 13:25; Psalm 35:5; Isaiah 17:13
- 19 Exodus 20:5; Ezekiel 18:19–20; Jeremiah 31:29; Isaiah 53:4–6; Ezekiel 18:2
- 20 Isaiah 51:17; Revelation 14:10; Psalm 75:8; Job 27:19; Jeremiah 25:15–16
- 21 Job 14:5; Ecclesiastes 2:18–19; Psalm 102:24; Psalm 55:23; Luke 16:27–28
- 22 Romans 11:34; 1 Corinthians 2:16; Isaiah 40:13–14; Ecclesiastes 5:8; Job 40:2
- 23 Psalm 49:17; Luke 12:19–21; Job 20:22–23; Psalm 73:4–5
- 24 Proverbs 3:8; Psalm 17:10; Job 15:27
- 25 Ezekiel 4:16–17; Job 7:11; Job 20:23; 1 Kings 17:12; 2 Samuel 17:8
- 26 Isaiah 14:11; Ecclesiastes 9:2; Job 20:11; Job 3:18–19; Job 24:20
- 27 Luke 5:22; Psalm 119:86; 1 Peter 2:19; Job 42:7; Job 8:3–6
- 28 Job 8:22; Job 20:7; Psalm 52:5–6; Habakkuk 2:9–11; Numbers 16:26–34
- 29 Psalm 129:8
- 30 Proverbs 16:4; 2 Peter 2:9–17; 2 Peter 3:7; Job 20:28; Romans 2:5
- 31 Deuteronomy 7:10; Galatians 2:11; Romans 12:19; Jeremiah 2:33–35; James 2:13
- 32 Luke 16:22; Psalm 49:14; Ezekiel 32:21–32
- 33 Hebrews 9:27; Job 30:23; Job 24:24; Ecclesiastes 12:7; Job 17:16
- 34 Job 16:2; Job 32:3; Job 13:4; Job 42:7
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