### Young's Literal Translation

Job 20

## The Book of Job

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| # Chapter 21
| And Job answereth and saith: --
| Hear ye diligently my word, And this is your consolation.
| Bear with me, and I speak, And after my speaking -- ye may deride.
| I -- to man [is] my complaint? and if [so], wherefore May not my temper become short?
| Turn unto me, and be astonished, And put hand to mouth.
| Yea, if I have remembered, then I have been troubled. And my flesh hath taken fright.
| Wherefore do the wicked live? They have become old, Yea, they have been mighty in wealth.
| Their seed is established, Before their face with them, And their offspring before their eyes.
| Their houses [are] peace without fear, Nor [is] a rod of God upon them.
| His bullock hath eaten corn, and doth not loath. His cow bringeth forth safely, And doth not miscarry.
| They send forth as a flock their sucklings, And their children skip,
| They lift [themselves] up at timbrel and harp, And rejoice at the sound of an organ.
| They wear out in good their days, And in a moment [to] Sheol go down.
| And they say to God, 'Turn aside from us, And the knowledge of Thy ways We have not desired.
| What [is] the Mighty One that we serve Him? And what do we profit when we meet with Him?'
| Lo, not in their hand [is] their good, (The counsel of the wicked Hath been far from me.)
| How oft is the lamp of the wicked extinguished, And come on them doth their calamity? Pangs He apportioneth in His anger.
| They are as straw before wind, And as chaff a hurricane hath stolen away,
| God layeth up for his sons his sorrow, He giveth recompense unto him -- and he knoweth.
| His own eyes see his destruction, And of the wrath of the Mighty he drinketh.
| For what [is] his delight in his house after him, And the number of his months cut off?
| To God doth [one] teach knowledge, And He the high doth judge?
| This [one] dieth in his perfect strength, Wholly at ease and quiet.
| His breasts have been full of milk, And marrow his bones doth moisten.
| And this [one] dieth with a bitter soul, And have not eaten with gladness.
| Together -- on the dust they lie down, And the worm doth cover them over.
| Lo, I have known your thoughts, And the devices against me ye do wrongfully.
| For ye say, 'Where [is] the house of the noble? And where the tent -- The tabernacles of the wicked?'
| Have ye not asked those passing by the way? And their signs do ye not know?
| That to a day of calamity is the wicked spared. To a day of wrath they are brought.
| Who doth declare to his face his way? And [for] that which he hath done, Who doth give recompence to him?
| And he -- to the graves he is brought. And over the heap a watch is kept.
| Sweet to him have been the clods of the valley, And after him every man he draweth, And before him there is no numbering.
| And how do ye comfort me [with] vanity, And in your answers hath been left trespass?

Job 22

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