Job 21:18-28

18 Serán como la paja delante del viento, y como el tamo que arrebata el torbellino

19 Dios guardará para los hijos de ellos su violencia; y le dará su pago, para que conozca

20 Verán sus ojos su quebranto, y beberá de la ira del Todopoderoso

21 Porque ¿qué deleite tendrá él de su casa después de sí, siendo cortado el número de sus meses

22 ¿Por ventura enseñará él a Dios conocimiento, juzgando él las alturas

23 Este morirá en la fortaleza de su hermosura, todo quieto y pacífico

24 Sus senos están llenos de leche, y sus huesos serán regados de tuétano

25 Y este otro morirá en amargura de ánimo, y no habiendo comido jamás con gusto

26 Igualmente yacerán ellos en el polvo, y gusanos los cubrirán

27 He aquí, yo conozco vuestros pensamientos, y las imaginaciones que contra mí forjáis

28 Porque decís: ¿Qué es de la casa del príncipe, y qué de la tienda de las moradas de los impíos

Job 21:18-28 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.