Giobbe 21:29-34

29 Non avete dunque interrogato quelli che hanno viaggiato? Voi non vorrete negare quello che attestano;

30 che, cioè, il malvagio è risparmiato nel dì della ruina, che nel giorno dell’ira egli sfugge.

31 Chi gli rimprovera in faccia la sua condotta? Chi gli rende quel che ha fatto?

32 Egli è portato alla sepoltura con onore, e veglia egli stesso sulla sua tomba.

33 Lievi sono a lui le zolle della valle; dopo, tutta la gente segue le sue orme; e, anche prima, una folla immensa fu come lui.

34 Perché dunque m’offrite consolazioni vane? Delle vostre risposte altro non resta che falsità".

Giobbe 21:29-34 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO JOB 21

This chapter contains Job's reply to Zophar's preceding discourse, in which, after a preface exciting attention to what he was about to say, Job 21:1-6; he describes by various instances the prosperity of wicked men, even of the most impious and atheistical, and which continues with them as long as they live, contrary to what Zophar had asserted in Job 20:5, Job 21:7-15; as for himself, he disapproved of such wicked men as much as any, and owns that destruction comes upon them sooner or later, and on their posterity also, Job 21:16-21; but as God is a God of knowledge, and needs no instruction from any, and is a sovereign Being, he deals with men in different ways; some die in great ease, and peace, and prosperity, and others in bitterness and distress, but both are alike brought to the dust, Job 21:22-26; and whereas he was aware of their censures of him, and their objections to what he had said, he allows that the wicked are reserved to the day of destruction, which is future, and in the mean while lie in the grave, where all must follow; yet they are not repaid or rewarded in this life, that remains to be done in another world, Job 21:27-33; and concludes, that their consolation with respect to him was vain, and falsehood was in their answers, Job 21:34.