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Job 21

The Message Bible MSG

1 Job replied:

2 "Now listen to me carefully, please listen, at least do me the favor of listening.

3 Put up with me while I have my say - then you can mock me later to your heart's content.

4 "It's not you I'm complaining to - it's God. Is it any wonder I'm getting fed up with his silence?

5 Take a good look at me. Aren't you appalled by what's happened? No! Don't say anything. I can do without your comments.

6 When I look back, I go into shock, my body is racked with spasms.

7 Why do the wicked have it so good, live to a ripe old age and get rich?

8 They get to see their children succeed, get to watch and enjoy their grandchildren.

9 Their homes are peaceful and free from fear; they never experience God's disciplining rod.

10 Their bulls breed with great vigor and their cows calve without fail.

11 They send their children out to play and watch them frolic like spring lambs.

12 They make music with fiddles and flutes, have good times singing and dancing.

13 They have a long life on easy street, and die painlessly in their sleep.

14 They say to God, 'Get lost! We've no interest in you or your ways.

15 Why should we have dealings with God Almighty? What's there in it for us?'

16 But they're wrong, dead wrong - they're not gods. It's beyond me how they can carry on like this!

17 "Still, how often does it happen that the wicked fail, or disaster strikes, or they get their just deserts?

18 How often are they blown away by bad luck? Not very often.

19 You might say, 'God is saving up the punishment for their children.' I say, 'Give it to them right now so they'll know what they've done!'

20 They deserve to experience the effects of their evil, feel the full force of God's wrath firsthand.

21 What do they care what happens to their families after they're safely tucked away in the grave? Fancy Funerals with All the Trimmings

22 "But who are we to tell God how to run his affairs? He's dealing with matters that are way over our heads.

23 Some people die in the prime of life, with everything going for them -

24 fat and sassy.

25 Others die bitter and bereft, never getting a taste of happiness.

26 They're laid out side by side in the cemetery, where the worms can't tell one from the other.

27 "I'm not deceived. I know what you're up to, the plans you're cooking up to bring me down.

28 Naively you claim that the castles of tyrants fall to pieces, that the achievements of the wicked collapse.

29 Have you ever asked world travelers how they see it? Have you not listened to their stories

30 Of evil men and women who got off scot-free, who never had to pay for their wickedness?

31 Did anyone ever confront them with their crimes? Did they ever have to face the music?

32 Not likely - they're given fancy funerals with all the trimmings,

33 Gently lowered into expensive graves, with everyone telling lies about how wonderful they were.

34 "So how do you expect me to get any comfort from your nonsense? Your so-called comfort is a tissue of lies."

The Latin Vulgate VUL

1 respondens autem Iob dixit

2 audite quaeso sermones meos et agetis paenitentiam

3 sustinete me ut et ego loquar et post mea si videbitur verba ridete

4 numquid contra hominem disputatio mea est ut merito non debeam contristari

5 adtendite me et obstupescite et superponite digitum ori vestro

6 et ego quando recordatus fuero pertimesco et concutit carnem meam tremor

7 quare ergo impii vivunt sublevati sunt confortatique divitiis

8 semen eorum permanet coram eis propinquorum turba et nepotum in conspectu eorum

9 domus eorum securae sunt et pacatae et non est virga Dei super illos

10 bos eorum concepit et non abortit vacca peperit et non est privata fetu suo

11 egrediuntur quasi greges parvuli eorum et infantes eorum exultant lusibus

12 tenent tympanum et citharam et gaudent ad sonitum organi

13 ducunt in bonis dies suos et in puncto ad inferna descendunt

14 qui dixerunt Deo recede a nobis et scientiam viarum tuarum nolumus

15 quid est Omnipotens ut serviamus ei et quid nobis prodest si oraverimus illum

16 verumtamen quia non sunt in manu eorum bona sua consilium impiorum longe sit a me

17 quotiens lucerna impiorum extinguetur et superveniet eis inundatio et dolores dividet furoris sui

18 erunt sicut paleae ante faciem venti et sicut favilla quam turbo dispergit

19 Deus servabit filiis illius dolorem patris et cum reddiderit tunc sciet

20 videbunt oculi eius interfectionem suam et de furore Omnipotentis bibet

21 quid enim ad eum pertinet de domo sua post se et si numerus mensuum eius dimidietur

22 numquid Deum quispiam docebit scientiam qui excelsos iudicat

23 iste moritur robustus et sanus dives et felix

24 viscera eius plena sunt adipe et medullis ossa illius inrigantur

25 alius vero moritur in amaritudine animae absque ullis opibus

26 et tamen simul in pulverem dormient et vermes operient eos

27 certe novi cogitationes vestras et sententias contra me iniquas

28 dicitis enim ubi est domus principis et ubi tabernacula impiorum

29 interrogate quemlibet de viatoribus et haec eadem eum intellegere cognoscetis

30 quia in diem perditionis servabitur malus et ad diem furoris ducitur

31 quis arguet coram eo viam eius et quae fecit quis reddet illi

32 ipse ad sepulchra ducetur et in congerie mortuorum vigilabit

33 dulcis fuit glareis Cocyti et post se omnem hominem trahet et ante se innumerabiles

34 quomodo igitur consolamini me frustra cum responsio vestra repugnare ostensa sit veritati