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21:1  But Iyov answered and said,
21:2  Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your tanechumot (consolations).
21:3  Bear with me that I may speak; and achar (after) that I have spoken, mock on.
21:4  As for me, is my complaint to adam (mortals)? Or why should my ruach not become impatient?
21:5  Look at me, and be astonished, and lay your yad upon your peh (mouth).
21:6  Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my basar.
21:7  Madu’a (why) do the resha’im live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?
21:8  Their zera is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes.
21:9  Their batim (houses) are shalom from pachad; neither is the shevet Eloah upon them.
21:10  Their shor (bull) breeds, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and doth not miscarry her calf.
21:11  They send forth their little ones like a tzon, and their yeladim jump about.
21:12  They sing to the tambourine and kinnor, and rejoice at the sound of the flute.
21:13  They spend their yamim in tov, and in a moment go down to Sheol.
21:14  Therefore they say unto El, Depart from us; for we desire not the da’as of Thy ways.
21:15  What is Shaddai, that we should serve Him? And what profit should we have, if we importune Him?
21:16  Lo, their tov is not in their yad; the etzah (counsel, scheme) of the resha’im is far from me.
21:17  How oft is the ner (light) of the resha’im put out! And how oft cometh their destruction upon them and He distributeth pains in His anger.
21:18  They are as straw before the ruach, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.
21:19  Eloah layeth up his iniquity for his banim; He payeth him back, and he shall know it.
21:20  His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of Shaddai.
21:21  For what pleasure hath he in his bais after him, when the mispar (number) of his months is cut off?
21:22  Shall any teach El da’as, seeing He judgeth those that are on high?
21:23  Zeh (this one) dieth in his full prosperity, being wholly at ease and secure.
21:24  His troughs are full of cholov, and his atzmot are moistened with marrow.
21:25  And another dieth in the marah (bitterness) of his nefesh, and never eateth with pleasure.
21:26  They shall lie down alike in the aphar, and the worms shall cover them.
21:27  Behold, I know your machshevot, and the stratagems which ye wrongfully imagine against me.
21:28  For ye say, Where is the bais of the tyrant? And where are the ohel mishkenot of the resha’im?
21:29  Have ye not asked them that travel the derech? And do ye not accept their testimony,
21:30  That the rah is spared in the yom eid (day of calamity)? They shall be rescued in the yom avarot (day of wrath).
21:31  Who shall declare his derech to his face? And who shall repay him what he hath done?
21:32  Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the gadish (gravemound).
21:33  The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, and kol adam shall draw after him, as there are innumerable before him.
21:34  How then comfort ye me with hevel (empty nothings), seeing in your answers there is nothing left but falsehood?