Job: God Will Punish the Wicked 1 AKJV But Job answered and said, BSB BSB: Then Job answered:
2 AKJV Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations. BSB BSB: “Listen carefully to my words; let this be your consolation to me.
3 AKJV Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on. BSB BSB: Bear with me while I speak; then, after I have spoken, you may go on mocking.
4 AKJV As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled? BSB BSB: Is my complaint against a man? Then why should I not be impatient?
5 AKJV Mark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand on your mouth. BSB BSB: Look at me and be appalled; put your hand over your mouth.
6 AKJV Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling takes hold on my flesh. BSB BSB: When I remember, terror takes hold, and my body trembles in horror.
7 AKJV Why do the wicked live, become old, yes, are mighty in power? BSB BSB: Why do the wicked live on, growing old and increasing in power?
8 AKJV Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes. BSB BSB: Their descendants are established around them, and their offspring before their eyes.
9 AKJV Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God on them. BSB BSB: Their homes are safe from fear; no rod of punishment from God is upon them.
10 AKJV Their bull engenders, and fails not; their cow calves, and casts not her calf. BSB BSB: Their bulls breed without fail; their cows bear calves and do not miscarry.
11 AKJV They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance. BSB BSB: They send forth their little ones like a flock; their children skip about,
12 AKJV They take the tambourine and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ. BSB BSB: singing to the tambourine and lyre and making merry at the sound of the flute.
13 AKJV They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave. BSB BSB: They spend their days in prosperity and go down to Sheol in peace.
14 AKJV Therefore they say to God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of your ways. BSB BSB: Yet they say to God: ‘Leave us alone! For we have no desire to know Your ways.
15 AKJV What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray to him? BSB BSB: Who is the Almighty, that we should serve Him, and what would we gain if we pray to Him?’
16 AKJV See, their good is not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me. BSB BSB: Still, their prosperity is not in their own hands, so I stay far from the counsel of the wicked.
17 AKJV How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and how oft comes their destruction on them! God distributes sorrows in his anger. BSB BSB: How often is the lamp of the wicked put out? Does disaster come upon them? Does God, in His anger, apportion destruction?
18 AKJV They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carries away. BSB BSB: Are they like straw before the wind, like chaff swept away by a storm?
19 AKJV God lays up his iniquity for his children: he rewards him, and he shall know it. BSB BSB: It is said that God lays up one’s punishment for his children. Let God repay the man himself, so he will know it.
20 AKJV His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty. BSB BSB: Let his eyes see his own destruction; let him drink for himself the wrath of the Almighty.
21 AKJV For what pleasure has he in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off in the middle? BSB BSB: For what does he care about his household after him, when the number of his months has run out?
22 AKJV Shall any teach God knowledge? seeing he judges those that are high. BSB BSB: Can anyone teach knowledge to God, since He judges those on high?
23 AKJV One dies in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet. BSB BSB: One man dies full of vigor, completely secure and at ease.
24 AKJV His breasts are full of milk, and his bones are moistened with marrow. BSB BSB: His body is well nourished, and his bones are rich with marrow.
25 AKJV And another dies in the bitterness of his soul, and never eats with pleasure. BSB BSB: Yet another man dies in the bitterness of his soul, having never tasted prosperity.
26 AKJV They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them. BSB BSB: But together they lie down in the dust, and worms cover them both.
27 AKJV Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which you wrongfully imagine against me. BSB BSB: Behold, I know your thoughts full well, the schemes by which you would wrong me.
28 AKJV For you say, Where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked? BSB BSB: For you say, ‘Where now is the nobleman’s house, and where are the tents in which the wicked dwell?’
29 AKJV Have you not asked them that go by the way? and do you not know their tokens, BSB BSB: Have you never asked those who travel the roads? Do you not accept their reports?
30 AKJV That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath. BSB BSB: Indeed, the evil man is spared from the day of calamity, delivered from the day of wrath.
31 AKJV Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him what he has done? BSB BSB: Who denounces his behavior to his face? Who repays him for what he has done?
32 AKJV Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb. BSB BSB: He is carried to the grave, and watch is kept over his tomb.
33 AKJV The clods of the valley shall be sweet to him, and every man shall draw after him, as there are innumerable before him. BSB BSB: The clods of the valley are sweet to him; everyone follows behind him, and those before him are without number.
34 AKJV How then comfort you me in vain, seeing in your answers there remains falsehood? BSB BSB: So how can you comfort me with empty words? For your answers remain full of falsehood.”
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