Hebrew Names Version HNV
Young's Literal Translation YLT
1 Then Iyov answered,
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And Job answereth and saith: --
2 "Listen diligently to my speech. Let this be your consolation.
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Hear ye diligently my word, And this is your consolation.
3 Allow me, and I also will speak; After I have spoken, mock on.
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Bear with me, and I speak, And after my speaking -- ye may deride.
4 As for me, is my complaint to man? Why shouldn't I be impatient?
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I -- to man [is] my complaint? and if [so], wherefore May not my temper become short?
5 Look at me, and be astonished. Lay your hand on your mouth.
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Turn unto me, and be astonished, And put hand to mouth.
6 When I remember, I am troubled. Horror takes hold of my flesh.
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Yea, if I have remembered, then I have been troubled. And my flesh hath taken fright.
7 "Why do the wicked live, Become old, yes, and grow mighty in power?
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Wherefore do the wicked live? They have become old, Yea, they have been mighty in wealth.
8 Their child is established with them in their sight, Their offspring before their eyes.
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Their seed is established, Before their face with them, And their offspring before their eyes.
9 Their houses are safe from fear, Neither is the rod of God upon them.
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Their houses [are] peace without fear, Nor [is] a rod of God upon them.
10 Their bulls breed without fail. Their cows calve, and don't miscarry.
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His bullock hath eaten corn, and doth not loath. His cow bringeth forth safely, And doth not miscarry.
11 They send forth their little ones like a flock. Their children dance.
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They send forth as a flock their sucklings, And their children skip,
12 They sing to the tambourine and harp, And rejoice at the sound of the pipe.
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They lift [themselves] up at timbrel and harp, And rejoice at the sound of an organ.
13 They spend their days in prosperity. In an instant they go down to She'ol.
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They wear out in good their days, And in a moment [to] Sheol go down.
14 They tell God, 'Depart from us, For we don't want to know about your ways.
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And they say to God, `Turn aside from us, And the knowledge of Thy ways We have not desired.
15 What is Shaddai, that we should serve him? What profit should we have, if we pray to him?'
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What [is] the Mighty One that we serve Him? And what do we profit when we meet with Him?'
16 Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand: The counsel of the wicked is far from me.
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Lo, not in their hand [is] their good, (The counsel of the wicked Hath been far from me.)
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?
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How oft is the lamp of the wicked extinguished, And come on them doth their calamity? Pangs He apportioneth in His anger.
18 That they are as stubble before the wind, As chaff that the storm carries away?
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They are as straw before wind, And as chaff a hurricane hath stolen away,
19 You say, 'God lays up his iniquity for his children.' Let him recompense it to himself, that he may know it.
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God layeth up for his sons his sorrow, He giveth recompense unto him -- and he knoweth.
20 Let his own eyes see his destruction. Let him drink of the wrath of Shaddai.
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His own eyes see his destruction, And of the wrath of the Mighty he drinketh.
21 For what does he care for his house after him, When the number of his months is cut off?
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For what [is] his delight in his house after him, And the number of his months cut off?
22 "Shall any teach God knowledge, Seeing he judges those who are high?
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To God doth [one] teach knowledge, And He the high doth judge?
23 One dies in his full strength, Being wholly at ease and quiet.
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This [one] dieth in his perfect strength, Wholly at ease and quiet.
24 His pails are full of milk. The marrow of his bones is moistened.
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His breasts have been full of milk, And marrow his bones doth moisten.
25 Another dies in bitterness of soul, And never tastes of good.
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And this [one] dieth with a bitter soul, And have not eaten with gladness.
26 They lie down alike in the dust, The worm covers them.
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Together -- on the dust they lie down, And the worm doth cover them over.
27 "Behold, I know your thoughts, The devices with which you would wrong me.
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Lo, I have known your thoughts, And the devices against me ye do wrongfully.
28 For you say, 'Where is the house of the prince? Where is the tent in which the wicked lived?'
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For ye say, `Where [is] the house of the noble? And where the tent -- The tabernacles of the wicked?'
29 Haven't you asked wayfaring men? Don't you know their evidences,
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Have ye not asked those passing by the way? And their signs do ye not know?
30 That the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity? That they are led forth to the day of wrath?
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That to a day of calamity is the wicked spared. To a day of wrath they are brought.
31 Who shall declare his way to his face? Who shall repay him what he has done?
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Who doth declare to his face his way? And [for] that which he hath done, Who doth give recompence to him?
32 Yet shall he be borne to the grave, Men shall keep watch over the tomb.
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And he -- to the graves he is brought. And over the heap a watch is kept.
33 The clods of the valley shall be sweet to him. All men shall draw after him, As there were innumerable before him.
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Sweet to him have been the clods of the valley, And after him every man he draweth, And before him there is no numbering.
34 So how can you comfort me with nonsense, Seeing that in your answers there remains only falsehood?"
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And how do ye comfort me [with] vanity, And in your answers hath been left trespass?
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