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1 Then Job answered, and said:
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Then Job answered:
2 Hear, I beseech you, my words, and do penance.
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"Listen carefully to my words, and let this be your consolation.
3 Suffer me, and I will speak, and after, if you please, laugh at my words.
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Bear with me, and I will speak; then after I have spoken, mock on.
4 Is my debate against man, that I should not have just reason to be troubled?
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As for me, is my complaint addressed to mortals? Why should I not be impatient?
5 Hearken to me and be astonished, and lay your finger on your mouth.
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Look at me, and be appalled, and lay your hand upon your mouth.
6 As for me, when I remember, I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh.
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When I think of it I am dismayed, and shuddering seizes my flesh.
7 Why then do the wicked live, are they advanced, and strengthened with riches?
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Why do the wicked live on, reach old age, and grow mighty in power?
8 Their seed continueth before them, a multitude of kinsmen, and of children’s children in their sight.
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Their children are established in their presence, and their offspring before their eyes.
9 Their houses are secure and peaceable, and the rod of God is not upon them.
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Their houses are safe from fear, and no rod of God is upon them.
10 Their cattle have conceived, and failed not: their cow has calved, and is not deprived of her fruit.
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Their bull breeds without fail; their cow calves and never miscarries.
11 Their little ones go out like a flock, and their children dance and play.
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They send out their little ones like a flock, and their children dance around.
12 They take the timbrel, and the harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ.
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They sing to the tambourine and the lyre, and rejoice to the sound of the pipe.
13 They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment they go down to hell.
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They spend their days in prosperity, and in peace they go down to Sheol.
14 Who have said to God: Depart from us, we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.
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They say to God, "Leave us alone! We do not desire to know your ways.
15 Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what doth it profit us if we pray to 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 Yet because their good things are not in their hand, may the counsel of the wicked be far from me.
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Is not their prosperity indeed their own achievement? The plans of the wicked are repugnant to me.
17 How often shall the lamp of the wicked be put out, and a deluge come upon them, and he shall distribute the sorrows of his wrath?
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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 They shall be as chaff before the face of the wind, and as ashes which the whirlwind scattereth.
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How often are they like straw before the wind, and like chaff that the storm carries away?
19 God shall lay up the sorrow of the father for his children: and when he shall repay, then shall he know.
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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 His eyes shall see his own destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
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Let their own eyes see their destruction, and let them drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
21 For what is it to him what befalleth his house after him: and if the number of his months be diminished by one half?
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For what do they care for their household after them, when the number of their months is cut off?
22 Shall any one teach God knowledge, who judgeth those that are high?
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Will any teach God knowledge, seeing that he judges those that are on high?
23 One man dieth strong, and hale, rich and happy.
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One dies in full prosperity, being wholly at ease and secure,
24 His bowels are full of fat, and his bones are moistened with marrow.
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his loins full of milk and the marrow of his bones moist.
25 But another dieth in bitterness of soul without any riches:
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Another dies in bitterness of soul, never having tasted of good.
26 And yet they shall sleep together in the dust, and worms shall cover them.
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They lie down alike in the dust, and the worms cover them.
27 Surely I know your thoughts, and your unjust judgments against me.
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"Oh, I know your thoughts, and your schemes to wrong me.
28 For you say: Where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked?
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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 any one of them that go by the way, and you shall perceive that he knoweth these same things.
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Have you not asked those who travel the roads, and do you not accept their testimony,
30 Because the wicked man is reserved to the day of destruction, and he shall be brought to the day of wrath.
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that the wicked are spared in the day of calamity, and are rescued in the day of wrath?
31 Who shall reprove his way to his face? and who shall repay him what he hath done?
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Who declares their way to their face, and who repays them for what they have done?
32 He shall be brought to the graves, and shall watch in the heap of the dead.
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When they are carried to the grave, a watch is kept over their tomb.
33 He hath been acceptable to the gravel of Cocytus, and he shall draw every man after him, and there are 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 your answer is shewn to be repugnant to truth?
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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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