### Darby's English Translation

Job 20

## The Book of Job

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| # Chapter 21
| And Job answered and said,
| Hear attentively my speech, and let this replace your consolations.
| Suffer me and I will speak; and after I have spoken, mock on!
| As for me, is my complaint to a man? or wherefore should not my spirit be impatient?
| Mark me, and be astonished, and lay the hand upon the mouth.
| Even when I think [thereon], I am affrighted, and trembling taketh hold of my flesh.
| Wherefore do the wicked live, grow old, yea, become mighty in power?
| Their seed is established with them in their sight, and their offspring before their eyes.
| Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of +God upon them.
| Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf.
| They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.
| They shout to the tambour and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the pipe.
| They spend their days in prosperity, and in a moment go down to Sheol.
| And they say unto łGod, Depart from us, for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways!
| What is the Almighty that we should serve him? and what are we profited if we pray unto him?
| Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand. The counsel of the wicked be far from me!
| 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?
| Do they become as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away?
| +God layeth up [the punishment of] his iniquity for his children; he rewardeth him, and he shall know [it]:
| His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the fury of the Almighty.
| For what pleasure should he have in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off?
| Can any teach łGod knowledge? And he it is that judgeth those that are high.
| One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet;
| His sides are full of fat, and the marrow of his bones is moistened;
| And another dieth in bitterness of soul, and hath not tasted good:
| Together they lie down in the dust, and the worms cover them.
| Lo, I know your thoughts, and the devices ye wrongfully imagine against me.
| For ye say, Where is the house of the noble? and where the tent of the dwellings of the wicked?
| Have ye not asked the wayfarers? and do ye not regard their tokens:
| That the wicked is reserved for the day of calamity? They are led forth to the day of wrath.
| Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him what he hath done?
| Yet is he carried to the graves, and watch is kept over the tomb.
| The clods of the valley are sweet unto him; and every man followeth suit after him, as there were innumerable before him.
| How then comfort ye me in vain? Your answers remain perfidious.

Job 22

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