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Job 21

Septuagint Bible w/ Apocrypha LXX

1 But Job answered and said,

2 Hear ye, hear ye my words, that I may not have this consolation from you.

3 Raise me, and I will speak; then ye shall not laugh me to scorn.

4 What! is my reproof of man? and why should I not be angry?

5 Look upon me, and wonder, laying your hand upon your cheek.

6 For even when I remember, I am alarmed, and pains seize my flesh.

7 Wherefore do the ungodly live, and grow old even in wealth?

8 Their seed is according to desire, and their children are in sight.

9 Their houses are prosperous, neither any where fear, neither is there a scourge from the Lord upon them.

10 Their cow does not cast her calf, and their with young is safe, and does not miscarry.

11 And they remain as an unfailing flock, and their children play before , taking up the psaltery and harp;

12 and they rejoice at the voice of a song.

13 And they spend their days in wealth, and fall asleep in the rest of the grave.

14 Yet says to the Lord, Depart from me; I desire not to know thy ways.

15 What is the Mighty One, that we should serve him? and what profit is there that we should approach him?

16 For their good things were in hands, but he regards not the works of the ungodly.

17 Nevertheless, the lamp of the ungodly also shall be put out, and destruction shall come upon them, and pangs of vengeance shall seize them.

18 And they shall be as chaff before the wind, or as dust which the storm has taken up.

19 Let his substance fail his children: shall recompense him, and he shall know it.

20 Let his eyes see his own destruction, and let him not be saved by the Lord.

21 For his desire is in his house with him, and the number of his months has been suddenly cut off.

22 Is it not the Lord who teaches understanding and knowledge? and does not he judge murders?

23 One shall die in his perfect strength, and wholly at ease and prosperous;

24 and his inwards are full of fat, and his marrow is diffused .

25 And another dies in bitterness of soul, not eating any good thing.

26 But they lie down in the earth together, and corruption covers them.

27 So I know you, that ye presumptuously attack me:

28 so that ye will say, Where is the house of the prince? and where is the covering of the tabernacles of the ungodly?

29 Ask those that go by the way, and do not disown their tokens.

30 For the wicked hastens to the day of destruction: they shall be led away for the day of his vengeance.

31 Who will tell him his way to his face, whereas he has done ? who shall recompense him?

32 And he has been led away to the tombs, and he has watched over the heaps.

33 The stones of the valley have been sweet to him, and every man shall depart after him, and innumerable before him.

34 How then do ye comfort me in vain? whereas I have no rest from your molestation.

New International Version NIV

1 Then Job replied:

2 “Listen carefully to my words; let this be the consolation you give me.

3 Bear with me while I speak, and after I have spoken, mock on.

4 “Is my complaint directed to a human being? Why should I not be impatient?

5 Look at me and be appalled; clap your hand over your mouth.

6 When I think about this, I am terrified; trembling seizes my body.

7 Why do the wicked live on, growing old and increasing in power?

8 They see their children established around them, their offspring before their eyes.

9 Their homes are safe and free from fear; the rod of God is not on them.

10 Their bulls never fail to breed; their cows calve and do not miscarry.

11 They send forth their children as a flock; their little ones dance about.

12 They sing to the music of timbrel and lyre; they make merry to the sound of the pipe.

13 They spend their years in prosperity and go down to the grave in peace.

14 Yet they say to God, ‘Leave us alone! We have no desire to know your ways.

15 Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What would we gain by praying to him?’

16 But their prosperity is not in their own hands, so I stand aloof from the plans of the wicked.

17 “Yet how often is the lamp of the wicked snuffed out? How often does calamity come upon them, the fate God allots in his anger?

18 How often are they like straw before the wind, like chaff swept away by a gale?

19 It is said, ‘God stores up the punishment of the wicked for their children.’ Let him repay the wicked, so that they themselves will experience it!

20 Let their own eyes see their destruction; let them drink the cup of the wrath of the Almighty.

21 For what do they care about the families they leave behind when their allotted months come to an end?

22 “Can anyone teach knowledge to God, since he judges even the highest?

23 One person dies in full vigor, completely secure and at ease,

24 well nourished in body,bones rich with marrow.

25 Another dies in bitterness of soul, never having enjoyed anything good.

26 Side by side they lie in the dust, and worms cover them both.

27 “I know full well what you are thinking, the schemes by which you would wrong me.

28 You say, ‘Where now is the house of the great, the tents where the wicked lived?’

29 Have you never questioned those who travel? Have you paid no regard to their accounts—

30 that the wicked are spared from the day of calamity, that they are delivered from the day of wrath?

31 Who denounces their conduct to their face? Who repays them for what they have done?

32 They are carried to the grave, and watch is kept over their tombs.

33 The soil in the valley is sweet to them; everyone follows after them, and a countless throng goes before them.

34 “So how can you console me with your nonsense? Nothing is left of your answers but falsehood!”