Septuagint Bible w/ Apocrypha LXX
New Revised Standard w/ Apocrypha NRSA
1 But Job answered and said,
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Then Job answered:
2 Hear ye, hear ye my words, that I may not have this consolation from you.
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"Listen carefully to my words, and let this be your consolation.
3 Raise me, and I will speak; then ye shall not laugh me to scorn.
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Bear with me, and I will speak; then after I have spoken, mock on.
4 What! is my reproof of man? and why should I not be angry?
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As for me, is my complaint addressed to mortals? Why should I not be impatient?
5 Look upon me, and wonder, laying your hand upon your cheek.
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Look at me, and be appalled, and lay your hand upon your mouth.
6 For even when I remember, I am alarmed, and pains seize my flesh.
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When I think of it I am dismayed, and shuddering seizes my flesh.
7 Wherefore do the ungodly live, and grow old even in wealth?
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Why do the wicked live on, reach old age, and grow mighty in power?
8 Their seed is according to desire, and their children are in sight.
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Their children are established in their presence, and their offspring before their eyes.
9 Their houses are prosperous, neither any where fear, neither is there a scourge from the Lord upon them.
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Their houses are safe from fear, and no rod of God is upon them.
10 Their cow does not cast her calf, and their with young is safe, and does not miscarry.
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Their bull breeds without fail; their cow calves and never miscarries.
11 And they remain as an unfailing flock, and their children play before , taking up the psaltery and harp;
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They send out their little ones like a flock, and their children dance around.
12 and they rejoice at the voice of a song.
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They sing to the tambourine and the lyre, and rejoice to the sound of the pipe.
13 And they spend their days in wealth, and fall asleep in the rest of the grave.
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They spend their days in prosperity, and in peace they go down to Sheol.
14 Yet says to the Lord, Depart from me; I desire not to know thy ways.
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They say to God, "Leave us alone! We do not desire to know your ways.
15 What is the Mighty One, that we should serve him? and what profit is there that we should approach him?
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What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? And what profit do we get if we pray to him?'
16 For their good things were in hands, but he regards not the works of the ungodly.
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Is not their prosperity indeed their own achievement? The plans of the wicked are repugnant to me.
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.
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"How often is the lamp of the wicked put out? How often does calamity come upon them? How often does God distribute pains in his anger?
18 And they shall be as chaff before the wind, or as dust which the storm has taken up.
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How often are they like straw before the wind, and like chaff that the storm carries away?
19 Let his substance fail his children: shall recompense him, and he shall know it.
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You say, "God stores up their iniquity for their children.' Let it be paid back to them, so that they may know it.
20 Let his eyes see his own destruction, and let him not be saved by the Lord.
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Let their own eyes see their destruction, and let them drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
21 For his desire is in his house with him, and the number of his months has been suddenly cut off.
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For what do they care for their household after them, when the number of their months is cut off?
22 Is it not the Lord who teaches understanding and knowledge? and does not he judge murders?
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Will any teach God knowledge, seeing that he judges those that are on high?
23 One shall die in his perfect strength, and wholly at ease and prosperous;
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One dies in full prosperity, being wholly at ease and secure,
24 and his inwards are full of fat, and his marrow is diffused .
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his loins full of milk and the marrow of his bones moist.
25 And another dies in bitterness of soul, not eating any good thing.
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Another dies in bitterness of soul, never having tasted of good.
26 But they lie down in the earth together, and corruption covers them.
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They lie down alike in the dust, and the worms cover them.
27 So I know you, that ye presumptuously attack me:
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"Oh, I know your thoughts, and your schemes to wrong 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?
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For you say, "Where is the house of the prince? Where is the tent in which the wicked lived?'
29 Ask those that go by the way, and do not disown their tokens.
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Have you not asked those who travel the roads, and do you not accept their testimony,
30 For the wicked hastens to the day of destruction: they shall be led away for the day of his vengeance.
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that the wicked are spared in the day of calamity, and are rescued in the day of wrath?
31 Who will tell him his way to his face, whereas he has done ? who shall recompense him?
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Who declares their way to their face, and who repays them for what they have done?
32 And he has been led away to the tombs, and he has watched over the heaps.
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When they are carried to the grave, a watch is kept over their tomb.
33 The stones of the valley have been sweet to him, and every man shall depart after him, and innumerable before him.
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The clods of the valley are sweet to them; everyone will follow after, and those who went before are innumerable.
34 How then do ye comfort me in vain? whereas I have no rest from your molestation.
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How then will you comfort me with empty nothings? There is nothing left of your answers but falsehood."
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