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| 1 Then responded Job, and said:– |
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| 2 Hear ye patiently my words, and let this be your consolation: |
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| 3 Suffer me, that, I, may speak, and, after I have spoken, thou canst mock! |
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| 4 Did, I, unto man, make my complaint? Wherefore, then, should my spirit not be impatient? |
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| 5 Turn round to me, and be astonished, and lay hand on mouth! |
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| 6 When I call to mind, then am I dismayed, and there seizeth my flesh a shuddering:– |
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| 7 Wherefore do, lawless men, live, advance in years, even wax mighty in power? |
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| 8 Their seed, is established in their sight, along with them, yea their offspring, before their eyes; |
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| 9 Their houses, are at peace, without dread, neither is, the rod of GOD, upon them; |
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| 10 His bull, covereth, and causeth not aversion, His cow safely calveth, and casteth not her young; |
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| 11 They send forth–like a flock–their young ones, and, their children, skip about for joy; |
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| 12 They rejoice aloud as [with] timbrel and lyre, and make merry to the sound of the pipe; |
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| 13 They complete, in prosperity, their days, and, in a moment to hades, they sink down. |
In wealth – Describing the prosperous course of some who are not the Lord's people in contrast with the tribulations of some who are the Lord's people. E360
Down to the grave – Sheol, oblivion, death, not torment. E360; R2600:1
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| 14 Yet they said unto GOD, Depart from us, and, In the knowledge of thy ways, find we no pleasure. |
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| 15 What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? Or what shall we profit, that we should urge him? |
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| 16 Lo! not in their own hand, is their welfare, The counsel of lawless men, is far from me! |
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| 17 How oft, the lamp of the lawless, goeth out, and their calamity, cometh upon them, Sorrows, apportioneth he in his anger; |
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| 18 They become as straw before the wind, and as chaff, which the storm stealeth away. |
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| 19 Shall, GOD, reserve, for his children, his sorrow? Let him recompense him so that he may know it; |
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| 20 His own eyes, shall see his misfortune, and, the wrath of the Almighty, shall he drink. |
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| 21 For what shall be his pleasure in his house after him, when, the number of his months, is cut in twain? |
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| 22 Is it, to GOD, one can teach knowledge, seeing that, he, shall judge, them who are on high? |
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| 23 This, man dieth, in the very perfection of his prosperity, wholly tranquil and secure; |
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| 24 His veins, are filled with nourishment, and, the marrow of his bones, is fresh; |
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| 25 Whereas, this other man, dieth, in bitterness of soul, and hath never tasted good fortune: |
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| 26 Together, in the dust, they lie down, and, the worm, spreadeth a covering over them. |
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| 27 Lo! I know your plans, and the devices, wherewith ye would do me violence! |
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| 28 For ye say, Where is the house of the noble-minded? And where the dwelling-tent of the lawless? |
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| 29 Have ye not asked the passers-by in the way? And, their signs, can ye not recognise? |
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| 30 That, to the day of calamity, is the wicked reserved, to the day of indignant visitation, are they led. |
Day of destruction – Day of judgment, the Millennial day. R1882:4; HG334:5
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| 31 Who can declare–to his face–his way? And, what, he, hath done, who shall recompense to him? |
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| 32 Yet, he, to the graves, is borne, and, over the tomb, one keepeth watch; |
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| 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. |
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| 34 How then should ye comfort me with vanity, since, as for your replies, there lurketh, [in them] treachery? |
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