nsb - Job:21

nsb@Job:21:1 @ JOB ANSWERED:

nsb@Job:21:2 @ »Listen carefully to my words, and let this be your consolation.

nsb@Job:21:3 @ »Bear with me, and I will speak. Then after I have spoken, mock on.

nsb@Job:21:4 @ »As for me, is my complaint addressed to mortals? Why should I not be impatient?

nsb@Job:21:5 @ »Look at me, and be appalled, and lay your hand upon your mouth.

nsb@Job:21:6 @ »When I think of it I am dismayed, and trembling seizes my flesh.

nsb@Job:21:7 @ »Why do the wicked live on, reach old age, and become mighty in power?

nsb@Job:21:8 @ »Their children are established in their presence, and their offspring before their eyes.

nsb@Job:21:9 @ »Their houses are safe and without fear, and no rod of God is upon them.

nsb@Job:21:10 @ »Their bull breeds without fail and their cow calves and never miscarries.

nsb@Job:21:11 @ »They send out their little ones like a flock, and their children dance around.

nsb@Job:21:12 @ »They sing to the tambourine and the lyre, and rejoice to the sound of the pipe.

nsb@Job:21:13 @ »They spend their days in prosperity, and in peace they go down to the grave.

nsb@Job:21:14 @ »They say to God: Leave us alone! We do not desire to know your ways.

nsb@Job:21:15 @ »Who is the Almighty that we should serve him? And what do we gain if we pray to him?

nsb@Job:21:16 @ »Is their prosperity indeed their own achievement? The plans of the wicked are repugnant to me.

nsb@Job:21:17 @ »How often is the lamp of the wicked put out? How often does calamity come upon them? How often does God distribute pains and sorrow in his anger?

nsb@Job:21:18 @ »How often are they like straw before the wind, and like chaff that the storm carries away?

nsb@Job:21:19 @ »You say: God stores up their iniquity for their children. Let God repay them so they may know.

nsb@Job:21:20 @ »Let their own eyes see their destruction, and let them drink of the wrath of the Almighty.

nsb@Job:21:21 @ »For what do they care for their household after them, when the number of their months is cut off in death?

nsb@Job:21:22 @ »Will any teach God knowledge, seeing that he judges those that are on high?

nsb@Job:21:23 @ »One dies in full prosperity, being wholly at ease and secure.

nsb@Job:21:24 @ »His loins are full of milk and the marrow of his bones is moist.

nsb@Job:21:25 @ »Another dies an angry being, never having tasted of good.

nsb@Job:21:26 @ »They lie down alike in the dust, and the worms cover them.

nsb@Job:21:27 @ »Oh, I know your thoughts, and your schemes to wrong me.

nsb@Job:21:28 @ »For you say: Where is the house of the prince? Where is the tent in which the wicked lived?

nsb@Job:21:29 @ »Have you not asked those who travel the roads, and do you not accept their testimony.

nsb@Job:21:30 @ »They say the wicked are spared in the day of calamity, and are rescued in the day of wrath?

nsb@Job:21:31 @ »Who declares their way to their face, and who repays them for what they have done?

nsb@Job:21:32 @ »When they are carried to the grave, a watch is kept over their tomb.

nsb@Job:21:33 @ »The clods of the valley are sweet to them; everyone will follow after, and those who went before are innumerable.

nsb@Job:21:34 @ »How then will you comfort me with empty and futile words? There is nothing left of your answers but falsehood.«