Job 21

Versículo 1. Then Job answered:

Versículo 2. “Listen carefully to my words; let this be your consolation to me.

Versículo 3. Bear with me while I speak; then, after I have spoken, you may go on mocking.

Versículo 4. Is my complaint against a man? Then why should I not be impatient?

Versículo 5. Look at me and be appalled; put your hand over your mouth.

Versículo 6. When I remember, terror takes hold, and my body trembles in horror.

Versículo 7. Why do the wicked live on, growing old and increasing in power?

Versículo 8. Their descendants are established around them, and their offspring before their eyes.

Versículo 9. Their homes are safe from fear; no rod of punishment from God is upon them.

Versículo 10. Their bulls breed without fail; their cows bear calves and do not miscarry.

Versículo 11. They send forth their little ones like a flock; their children skip about,

Versículo 12. singing to the tambourine and lyre and making merry at the sound of the flute.

Versículo 13. They spend their days in prosperity and go down to Sheol in peace.

Versículo 14. Yet they say to God: ‘Leave us alone! For we have no desire to know Your ways.

Versículo 15. Who is the Almighty, that we should serve Him, and what would we gain if we pray to Him?’

Versículo 16. Still, their prosperity is not in their own hands, so I stay far from the counsel of the wicked.

Versículo 17. How often is the lamp of the wicked put out? Does disaster come upon them? Does God, in His anger, apportion destruction?

Versículo 18. Are they like straw before the wind, like chaff swept away by a storm?

Versículo 19. It is said that God lays up one’s punishment for his children. Let God repay the man himself, so he will know it.

Versículo 20. Let his eyes see his own destruction; let him drink for himself the wrath of the Almighty.

Versículo 21. For what does he care about his household after him, when the number of his months has run out?

Versículo 22. Can anyone teach knowledge to God, since He judges those on high?

Versículo 23. One man dies full of vigor, completely secure and at ease.

Versículo 24. His body is well nourished, and his bones are rich with marrow.

Versículo 25. Yet another man dies in the bitterness of his soul, having never tasted prosperity.

Versículo 26. But together they lie down in the dust, and worms cover them both.

Versículo 27. Behold, I know your thoughts full well, the schemes by which you would wrong me.

Versículo 28. For you say, ‘Where now is the nobleman’s house, and where are the tents in which the wicked dwell?’

Versículo 29. Have you never asked those who travel the roads? Do you not accept their reports?

Versículo 30. Indeed, the evil man is spared from the day of calamity, delivered from the day of wrath.

Versículo 31. Who denounces his behavior to his face? Who repays him for what he has done?

Versículo 32. He is carried to the grave, and watch is kept over his tomb.

Versículo 33. The clods of the valley are sweet to him; everyone follows behind him, and those before him are without number.

Versículo 34. So how can you comfort me with empty words? For your answers remain full of falsehood.”