en_wbms - Job 21 - Ozzuu Bible

¹ Forsooth Job answered, and said,

² I pray you, hear ye my words, and do ye penance.

³ Suffer ye me, that I speak; and laugh ye after my words, if it shall seem to you worthy to do so.

⁴ Whether my disputing is against man, that skillfully I owe not to be [made] sorry?

⁵ Perceive ye me, and be ye astonied; and set ye [or putteth] your finger upon your mouth.

⁶ And when I bethink me, I dread, and trembling shaketh my flesh.

⁷ Why therefore live wicked men? They be enhanced, and comforteth with riches.

⁸ Their seed dwelleth before them; the company of their kinsmen, and of the sons of their sons, dwelleth in their sight.

⁹ Their houses be secure, and peace-able; and the rod, or scourge, of God is not upon them.

¹⁰ The cow of them conceived, and calved not a dead calf; the cow calved, and is not deprived of her calf.

¹¹ Their little children go out as flocks; and their young children full out joy with playings.

¹² They hold the tympan, and harp; and they joy at the sound of the organ.

¹³ They lead in goods their days; and in a point, they go down to hells, that is, to burials, or the grave.

¹⁴ Which men said to God, Go thou away from us; we desire not the knowing of thy ways.

¹⁵ Who is Almighty God, that we serve him? and what profiteth it to us, if we pray him?

¹⁶ Nevertheless for their goods be not in their hand, or power, the counsel of wicked men be far from me.

¹⁷ How oft shall the lantern of wicked men be quenched, and flowing shall come upon them, and God shall part with them the sorrows of his strong vengeance?

¹⁸ They shall be as chaff before the face of the wind; and as a dead spark, that the whirlwind scattereth abroad.

¹⁹ Ye say, God shall keep the sorrow of the father to his sons; and when he hath yielded to them vengeance, then he shall know it.

²⁰ His eyes shall see their slaying; and he shall drink of the strong vengeance of Almighty God.

²¹ For why what pertaineth it to him of his house after him, though the number of his months be half taken away?

²² Whether any man shall teach God knowing, which deemeth them that be on high?

²³ This evil man dieth strong and whole, rich and blessful to the world.

²⁴ His entrails be full of fatness; and his bones be moisted with marrow.

²⁵ And another man dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and without any riches.

²⁶ Nevertheless they shall sleep together in dust, and worms shall cover them.

²⁷ Certainly I know your wicked thoughts, and your sentences against me.

²⁸ For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? and where be the taber-nacles of wicked men?

²⁹ Ask ye this of each way-goer; and ye shall know, that he knoweth these same things,

³⁰ that is, that an evil man shall be kept into the day of perdition, and he shall be led to the day of strong vengeance.

³¹ Who shall reprove his ways before him? and who shall yield to him for those things, which he hath done?

³² He shall be led to the sepulchres; and he shall wake in the heap of dead men.

³³ He was sweet to the stones, either filths, of hell; and he draweth each man after him, and unnumber-able men went before him.

³⁴ How therefore comfort ye me in vain, since your answers be showed to contrary the truth?