Job 21 (DRA)

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v1

Then Job answered, and said:

v2

Hear, I beseech you, my words, and do penance.

v3

Suffer me, and I will speak, and after, if you please, laugh at my words.

v4

Is my debate against man, that I should not have just reason to be troubled?

v5

Hearken to me and be astonished, and lay your finger on your mouth.

v6

As for me, when I remember, I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh.

v7

Why then do the wicked live, are they advanced, and strengthened with riches?

v8

Their seed continueth before them, a multitude of kinsmen, and of children’s children in their sight.

v9

Their houses are secure and peaceable, and the rod of God is not upon them.

v10

Their cattle have conceived, and failed not: their cow has calved, and is not deprived of her fruit.

v11

Their little ones go out like a flock, and their children dance and play.

v12

They take the timbrel, and the harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ.

v13

They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment they go down to hell.

v14

Who have said to God: Depart from us, we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.

v15

Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what doth it profit us if we pray to him?

v16

Yet because their good things are not in their hand, may the counsel of the wicked be far from me.

v17

How 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?

v18

They shall be as chaff before the face of the wind, and as ashes which the whirlwind scattereth.

v19

God shall lay up the sorrow of the father for his children: and when he shall repay, then shall he know.

v20

His eyes shall see his own destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty.

v21

For what is it to him what befalleth his house after him: and if the number of his months be diminished by one half?

v22

Shall any one teach God knowledge, who judgeth those that are high?

v23

One man dieth strong, and hale, rich and happy.

v24

His bowels are full of fat, and his bones are moistened with marrow.

v25

But another dieth in bitterness of soul without any riches:

v26

And yet they shall sleep together in the dust, and worms shall cover them.

v27

Surely I know your thoughts, and your unjust judgments against me.

v28

For you say: Where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked?

v29

Ask any one of them that go by the way, and you shall perceive that he knoweth these same things.

v30

Because the wicked man is reserved to the day of destruction, and he shall be brought to the day of wrath.

v31

Who shall reprove his way to his face? and who shall repay him what he hath done?

v32

He shall be brought to the graves, and shall watch in the heap of the dead.

v33

He hath been acceptable to the gravel of Cocytus, and he shall draw every man after him, and there are innumerable before him.

v34

How then do ye comfort me in vain, whereas your answer is shewn to be repugnant to truth?

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