1THEN JOB answered,
2Hear diligently my speech, and let this [your attention] be your consolation [given me].
3Allow me, and I also will speak; and after I have spoken, mock on.
4As for me, is my complaint to man {or} of him? And why should I not be impatient {and} my spirit be troubled?
5Look at me and be astonished (appalled); and lay your hand upon your mouth.
6Even when I remember, I am troubled {and} afraid; horror {and} trembling take hold of my flesh.
7Why do the wicked live, become old, and become mighty in power?
8Their children are established with them in their sight, and their offspring before their eyes.
9Their houses are safe {and} in peace, without fear; neither is the rod of God upon them.
10Their bull breeds and fails not; their cows calve and do not miscarry.
11They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children skip about.
12They themselves lift up their voices {and} sing to the tambourine and the lyre and rejoice to the sound of the pipe.
13They spend their days in prosperity and go down to Sheol (the unseen state) in a moment {and} peacefully.
14Yet they say to God, Depart from us, for we do not desire the knowledge of Your ways.
15Who is the Almighty, that we should serve Him? And what profit do we have if we pray to Him?
16But notice, [you say] the prosperity of the wicked is not in their power; the mystery [of God's dealings] with the ungodly is far from my comprehension.
17How often [then] is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out? That their calamity comes upon them? That God distributes pains {and} sorrows to them in His anger?
18That they are like stubble before the wind and like chaff that the storm steals {and} carries away?
19You say, God lays up [the punishment of the wicked man's] iniquity for his children. Let Him recompense it to the man himself, that he may know {and} feel it.
20Let his own eyes see his destruction, and let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
21For what pleasure {or} interest has a man in his house {and} family after he is dead, when the number of his months is cut off?
22Shall any teach God knowledge, seeing that He judges those who are on high?
23One dies in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet;
24His pails are full of milk [his veins are filled with nourishment], and the marrow of his bones is fresh {and} moist,
25Whereas another man dies in bitterness of soul and never tastes of pleasure {or} good fortune.
26They lie down alike in the dust, and the worm spreads a covering over them.
27Behold, I know your thoughts {and} plans and the devices with which you would wrong me.
28For you say, Where is the house of the rich {and} liberal prince [meaning me]? And where is the tent in which the wicked [Job] dwelt?
29Have you not asked those who travel this way, and do you not accept their testimony {and} evidences--
30That the evil man is [now] spared in the day of calamity {and} destruction, and they are led forth {and} away on the day of [God's] wrath?
31But who declares [a man's] way [and rebukes] him to his face? And who pays him back for what he has done?
32When he is borne to the grave, watch is kept over his tomb.
33The clods of the valley are sweet to him, and every man shall follow him to a grave, as innumerable people [have gone] before him.
34How then can you comfort me with empty {and} futile words, since in your replies there lurks falsehood?
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