Job: God Will Punish the Wicked 1 Brenton But Job answered and said, BSB BSB: Then Job answered:
2 Brenton Hear ye, hear ye my words, that I may not have this consolation from you. BSB BSB: “Listen carefully to my words; let this be your consolation to me.
3 Brenton Raise me, and I will speak; then ye shall not laugh me to scorn. BSB BSB: Bear with me while I speak; then, after I have spoken, you may go on mocking.
4 Brenton What! is my reproof of man? and why should I not be angry? BSB BSB: Is my complaint against a man? Then why should I not be impatient?
5 Brenton Look upon me, and wonder, laying your hand upon your cheek. BSB BSB: Look at me and be appalled; put your hand over your mouth.
6 Brenton For even when I remember, I am alarmed, and pains seize my flesh. BSB BSB: When I remember, terror takes hold, and my body trembles in horror.
7 Brenton Wherefore do the ungodly live, and grow old even in wealth? BSB BSB: Why do the wicked live on, growing old and increasing in power?
8 Brenton Their seed is according to their desire, and their children are in their sight. BSB BSB: Their descendants are established around them, and their offspring before their eyes.
9 Brenton Their houses are prosperous, neither have they any where cause for fear, neither is there a scourge from the Lord upon them. BSB BSB: Their homes are safe from fear; no rod of punishment from God is upon them.
10 Brenton Their cow does not cast her calf, and their beast with young is safe, and does not miscarry. BSB BSB: Their bulls breed without fail; their cows bear calves and do not miscarry.
11 Brenton And they remain as an unfailing flock, and their children play before them , taking up the psaltery and harp; BSB BSB: They send forth their little ones like a flock; their children skip about,
12 Brenton and they rejoice at the voice of a song. BSB BSB: singing to the tambourine and lyre and making merry at the sound of the flute.
13 Brenton And they spend their days in wealth, and fall asleep in the rest of the grave. BSB BSB: They spend their days in prosperity and go down to Sheol in peace.
14 Brenton Yet such a man says to the Lord, Depart from me; I desire not to know thy ways. BSB BSB: Yet they say to God: ‘Leave us alone! For we have no desire to know Your ways.
15 Brenton What is the Mighty One, that we should serve him? and what profit is there that we should approach him? BSB BSB: Who is the Almighty, that we should serve Him, and what would we gain if we pray to Him?’
16 Brenton For their good things were in their hands, but he regards not the works of the ungodly. BSB BSB: Still, their prosperity is not in their own hands, so I stay far from the counsel of the wicked.
17 Brenton Nevertheless, the lamp of the ungodly also shall be put out, and destruction shall come upon them, and pangs of vengeance shall seize them. 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 Brenton And they shall be as chaff before the wind, or as dust which the storm has taken up. BSB BSB: Are they like straw before the wind, like chaff swept away by a storm?
19 Brenton Let his substance fail to supply his children: God shall recompense 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 Brenton Let his eyes see his own destruction, and let him not be saved by the Lord. BSB BSB: Let his eyes see his own destruction; let him drink for himself the wrath of the Almighty.
21 Brenton For his desire is in his house with him, and the number of his months has been suddenly cut off. BSB BSB: For what does he care about his household after him, when the number of his months has run out?
22 Brenton Is it not the Lord who teaches understanding and knowledge? and does not he judge murders? BSB BSB: Can anyone teach knowledge to God, since He judges those on high?
23 Brenton One shall die in his perfect strength, and wholly at ease and prosperous; BSB BSB: One man dies full of vigor, completely secure and at ease.
24 Brenton and his inwards are full of fat, and his marrow is diffused throughout him . BSB BSB: His body is well nourished, and his bones are rich with marrow.
25 Brenton And another dies in bitterness of soul, not eating any good thing. BSB BSB: Yet another man dies in the bitterness of his soul, having never tasted prosperity.
26 Brenton But they lie down in the earth together, and corruption covers them. BSB BSB: But together they lie down in the dust, and worms cover them both.
27 Brenton So I know you, that ye presumptuously attack me: BSB BSB: Behold, I know your thoughts full well, the schemes by which you would wrong me.
28 Brenton so that ye will say, Where is the house of the prince? and where is the covering of the tabernacles of the ungodly? BSB BSB: For you say, ‘Where now is the nobleman’s house, and where are the tents in which the wicked dwell?’
29 Brenton Ask those that go by the way, and do not disown their tokens. BSB BSB: Have you never asked those who travel the roads? Do you not accept their reports?
30 Brenton For the wicked hastens to the day of destruction: they shall be led away for the day of his vengeance. BSB BSB: Indeed, the evil man is spared from the day of calamity, delivered from the day of wrath.
31 Brenton Who will tell him his way to his face, whereas he has done it ? who shall recompense him? BSB BSB: Who denounces his behavior to his face? Who repays him for what he has done?
32 Brenton And he has been led away to the tombs, and he has watched over the heaps. BSB BSB: He is carried to the grave, and watch is kept over his tomb.
33 Brenton The stones of the valley have been sweet to him, and every man shall depart after him, and there are innumerable ones 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 Brenton How then do ye comfort me in vain? whereas I have no rest from your molestation. BSB BSB: So how can you comfort me with empty words? For your answers remain full of falsehood.”
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