Job 21:18-28

18 Serán como la paja delante del viento, Y como el tamo que arrebata el torbellino.

19 Dios guardará para sus hijos su violencia; Y le dará su pago, para que conozca.

20 Verán sus ojos su quebranto, Y beberá de la ira del Todopoderoso.

21 Porque ¿qué deleite tendrá él de su casa después de sí, Siendo cortado el número de sus meses?

22 ¿Enseñará alguien á Dios sabiduría, Juzgando él á los que están elevados?

23 Este morirá en el vigor de su hermosura, todo quieto y pacífico.

24 Sus colodras están llenas de leche, Y sus huesos serán regados de tuétano.

25 Y estotro morirá en amargura de ánimo, Y no habiendo comido jamás con gusto.

26 Igualmente yacerán ellos en el polvo, Y gusanos los cubrirán.

27 He aquí, yo conozco vuestros pensamientos, Y las imaginaciones que contra mí forjáis.

28 Porque decís: ¿Qué es de la casa del príncipe, Y qué de la tienda de las moradas de los impíos?

Job 21:18-28 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO JOB 21

This chapter contains Job's reply to Zophar's preceding discourse, in which, after a preface exciting attention to what he was about to say, Job 21:1-6; he describes by various instances the prosperity of wicked men, even of the most impious and atheistical, and which continues with them as long as they live, contrary to what Zophar had asserted in Job 20:5, Job 21:7-15; as for himself, he disapproved of such wicked men as much as any, and owns that destruction comes upon them sooner or later, and on their posterity also, Job 21:16-21; but as God is a God of knowledge, and needs no instruction from any, and is a sovereign Being, he deals with men in different ways; some die in great ease, and peace, and prosperity, and others in bitterness and distress, but both are alike brought to the dust, Job 21:22-26; and whereas he was aware of their censures of him, and their objections to what he had said, he allows that the wicked are reserved to the day of destruction, which is future, and in the mean while lie in the grave, where all must follow; yet they are not repaid or rewarded in this life, that remains to be done in another world, Job 21:27-33; and concludes, that their consolation with respect to him was vain, and falsehood was in their answers, Job 21:34.