Job: God Will Punish the Wicked 1 DBY And Job answered and said, BSB BSB: Then Job answered:
2 DBY Hear attentively my speech, and let this replace your consolations. BSB BSB: “Listen carefully to my words; let this be your consolation to me.
3 DBY Suffer me and I will speak; and after I have spoken, mock on! BSB BSB: Bear with me while I speak; then, after I have spoken, you may go on mocking.
4 DBY As for me, is my complaint to a man? or wherefore should not my spirit be impatient? BSB BSB: Is my complaint against a man? Then why should I not be impatient?
5 DBY Mark me, and be astonished, and lay the hand upon the mouth. BSB BSB: Look at me and be appalled; put your hand over your mouth.
6 DBY Even when I think thereon , I am affrighted, and trembling taketh hold of my flesh. BSB BSB: When I remember, terror takes hold, and my body trembles in horror.
7 DBY Wherefore do the wicked live, grow old, yea, become mighty in power? BSB BSB: Why do the wicked live on, growing old and increasing in power?
8 DBY Their seed is established with them in their sight, and their offspring before their eyes. BSB BSB: Their descendants are established around them, and their offspring before their eyes.
9 DBY Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them. BSB BSB: Their homes are safe from fear; no rod of punishment from God is upon them.
10 DBY Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf. BSB BSB: Their bulls breed without fail; their cows bear calves and do not miscarry.
11 DBY 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 DBY They shout to the tambour and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the pipe. BSB BSB: singing to the tambourine and lyre and making merry at the sound of the flute.
13 DBY They spend their days in prosperity, and in a moment go down to Sheol. BSB BSB: They spend their days in prosperity and go down to Sheol in peace.
14 DBY And they say unto God, Depart from us, for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways! BSB BSB: Yet they say to God: ‘Leave us alone! For we have no desire to know Your ways.
15 DBY What is the Almighty that we should serve him? and what are we profited if we pray unto him? BSB BSB: Who is the Almighty, that we should serve Him, and what would we gain if we pray to Him?’
16 DBY Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand. The counsel of the wicked be 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 DBY How often is the lamp of the wicked put out, and cometh their calamity upon them? Doth he distribute sorrows to them 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 DBY Do they become as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away? BSB BSB: Are they like straw before the wind, like chaff swept away by a storm?
19 DBY God layeth up the punishment of his iniquity for his children; he rewardeth 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 DBY His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the fury of the Almighty. BSB BSB: Let his eyes see his own destruction; let him drink for himself the wrath of the Almighty.
21 DBY For what pleasure should he have in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off? BSB BSB: For what does he care about his household after him, when the number of his months has run out?
22 DBY Can any teach God knowledge? And he it is that judgeth those that are high. BSB BSB: Can anyone teach knowledge to God, since He judges those on high?
23 DBY One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet; BSB BSB: One man dies full of vigor, completely secure and at ease.
24 DBY His sides are full of fat, and the marrow of his bones is moistened; BSB BSB: His body is well nourished, and his bones are rich with marrow.
25 DBY And another dieth in bitterness of soul, and hath not tasted good: BSB BSB: Yet another man dies in the bitterness of his soul, having never tasted prosperity.
26 DBY Together they lie down in the dust, and the worms cover them. BSB BSB: But together they lie down in the dust, and worms cover them both.
27 DBY Lo, I know your thoughts, and the devices ye wrongfully imagine against me. BSB BSB: Behold, I know your thoughts full well, the schemes by which you would wrong me.
28 DBY For ye say, Where is the house of the noble? and where the tent of the dwellings 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 DBY Have ye not asked the wayfarers? and do ye not regard their tokens: BSB BSB: Have you never asked those who travel the roads? Do you not accept their reports?
30 DBY That the wicked is reserved for the day of calamity? They are led 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 DBY Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him what he hath done? BSB BSB: Who denounces his behavior to his face? Who repays him for what he has done?
32 DBY Yet is he carried to the graves, and watch is kept over the tomb. BSB BSB: He is carried to the grave, and watch is kept over his tomb.
33 DBY The clods of the valley are sweet unto him; and every man followeth suit after him, as there were 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 DBY How then comfort ye me in vain? Your answers remain perfidious. BSB BSB: So how can you comfort me with empty words? For your answers remain full of falsehood.”
Select verses for actions: Enter goes to them and Escape comes back.