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Job 21

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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!”

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