Job: God Will Punish the Wicked 1 WBS But Job answered and said, BSB BSB: Then Job answered:
2 WBS 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 WBS Suffer me that I may 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 WBS 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 WBS Mark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth. BSB BSB: Look at me and be appalled; put your hand over your mouth.
6 WBS Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh. BSB BSB: When I remember, terror takes hold, and my body trembles in horror.
7 WBS Why do the wicked live, become old, and, are mighty in power? BSB BSB: Why do the wicked live on, growing old and increasing in power?
8 WBS 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 WBS 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 WBS 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 WBS 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 WBS They take the timbrel 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 WBS 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 WBS Therefore they say to 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 WBS 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 WBS Lo, 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 WBS How oft is the candle of the wicked put out? and how oft cometh their destruction upon them? God distributeth 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 WBS They are 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 WBS God layeth up 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 WBS 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 WBS For what pleasure hath he in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off in the midst? BSB BSB: For what does he care about his household after him, when the number of his months has run out?
22 WBS Shall any teach God knowledge? seeing he judgeth those that are high. BSB BSB: Can anyone teach knowledge to God, since He judges those on high?
23 WBS 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 WBS 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 WBS And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never eateth with pleasure. BSB BSB: Yet another man dies in the bitterness of his soul, having never tasted prosperity.
26 WBS 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 WBS Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me. BSB BSB: Behold, I know your thoughts full well, the schemes by which you would wrong me.
28 WBS For ye 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 WBS Have ye not asked them that go by the way? and do ye not know their tokens, BSB BSB: Have you never asked those who travel the roads? Do you not accept their reports?
30 WBS That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they will 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 WBS 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 WBS Yet he shall 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 WBS The clods of the valley will be sweet to him, and every man will 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 WBS How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood? BSB BSB: So how can you comfort me with empty words? For your answers remain full of falsehood.”
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