# Job 21 ## Job 21:1 - [KJV] But Job answered and said, - [ASV] Then Job answered and said, - [YLT] And Job answereth and saith: -- ### Notes on Job 21:1 - ## Job 21:2 - [KJV] Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations. - [ASV] Hear diligently my speech; And let this be your consolations. - [YLT] Hear ye diligently my word, And this is your consolation. ### Notes on Job 21:2 - ## Job 21:3 - [KJV] Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on. - [ASV] Suffer me, and I also will speak; And after that I have spoken, mock on. - [YLT] Bear with me, and I speak, And after my speaking -- ye may deride. ### Notes on Job 21:3 - ## Job 21:4 - [KJV] As for me, *is* my complaint to man? and if *it were so*, why should not my spirit be troubled? - [ASV] As for me, is my complaint to man? And why should I not be impatient? - [YLT] I -- to man *is* my complaint? and if *so*, wherefore May not my temper become short? ### Notes on Job 21:4 - ## Job 21:5 - [KJV] Mark me, and be astonished, and lay *your* hand upon *your* mouth. - [ASV] Mark me, and be astonished, And lay your hand upon your mouth. - [YLT] Turn unto me, and be astonished, And put hand to mouth. ### Notes on Job 21:5 - ## Job 21:6 - [KJV] Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh. - [ASV] Even when I remember I am troubled, And horror taketh hold on my flesh. - [YLT] Yea, if I have remembered, then I have been troubled. And my flesh hath taken fright. ### Notes on Job 21:6 - ## Job 21:7 - [KJV] Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power? - [ASV] Wherefore do the wicked live, Become old, yea, wax mighty in power? - [YLT] Wherefore do the wicked live? They have become old, Yea, they have been mighty in wealth. ### Notes on Job 21:7 - ## Job 21:8 - [KJV] Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes. - [ASV] Their seed is established with them in their sight, And their offspring before their eyes. - [YLT] Their seed is established, Before their face with them, And their offspring before their eyes. ### Notes on Job 21:8 - ## Job 21:9 - [KJV] Their houses *are* safe from fear, neither *is* the rod of God upon them. - [ASV] Their houses are safe from fear, Neither is the rod of God upon them. - [YLT] Their houses *are* peace without fear, Nor *is* a rod of God upon them. ### Notes on Job 21:9 - ## Job 21:10 - [KJV] Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf. - [ASV] Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; Their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf. - [YLT] His bullock hath eaten corn, and doth not loath. His cow bringeth forth safely, And doth not miscarry. ### Notes on Job 21:10 - ## Job 21:11 - [KJV] They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance. - [ASV] They send forth their little ones like a flock, And their children dance. - [YLT] They send forth as a flock their sucklings, And their children skip, ### Notes on Job 21:11 - ## Job 21:12 - [KJV] They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ. - [ASV] They sing to the timbrel and harp, And rejoice at the sound of the pipe. - [YLT] They lift *themselves* up at timbrel and harp, And rejoice at the sound of an organ. ### Notes on Job 21:12 - ## Job 21:13 - [KJV] They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave. - [ASV] They spend their days in prosperity, And in a moment they go down to Sheol. - [YLT] They wear out in good their days, And in a moment *to* Sheol go down. ### Notes on Job 21:13 - ## Job 21:14 - [KJV] Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways. - [ASV] And they say unto God, Depart from us; For we desire not the knowledge of thy ways. - [YLT] And they say to God, 'Turn aside from us, And the knowledge of Thy ways We have not desired. ### Notes on Job 21:14 - ## Job 21:15 - [KJV] What *is* the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him? - [ASV] What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? And what profit should we have, if we pray unto him? - [YLT] What *is* the Mighty One that we serve Him? And what do we profit when we meet with Him?' ### Notes on Job 21:15 - ## Job 21:16 - [KJV] Lo, their good *is* not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me. - [ASV] Lo, their prosperity is not in their hand: The counsel of the wicked is far from me. - [YLT] Lo, not in their hand *is* their good, (The counsel of the wicked Hath been far from me.) ### Notes on Job 21:16 - ## Job 21:17 - [KJV] How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and *how oft* cometh their destruction upon them! *God* distributeth sorrows in his anger. - [ASV] How oft is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out? That their calamity cometh upon them? That *God* distributeth sorrows in his anger? - [YLT] How oft is the lamp of the wicked extinguished, And come on them doth their calamity? Pangs He apportioneth in His anger. ### Notes on Job 21:17 - ## Job 21:18 - [KJV] They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away. - [ASV] That they are as stubble before the wind, And as chaff that the storm carrieth away? - [YLT] They are as straw before wind, And as chaff a hurricane hath stolen away, ### Notes on Job 21:18 - ## Job 21:19 - [KJV] God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know *it*. - [ASV] *Ye say*, God layeth up his iniquity for his children. Let him recompense it unto himself, that he may know it: - [YLT] God layeth up for his sons his sorrow, He giveth recompense unto him -- and he knoweth. ### Notes on Job 21:19 - ## Job 21:20 - [KJV] His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty. - [ASV] Let his own eyes see his destruction, And let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty. - [YLT] His own eyes see his destruction, And of the wrath of the Mighty he drinketh. ### Notes on Job 21:20 - ## Job 21:21 - [KJV] For what pleasure *hath* he in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off in the midst? - [ASV] For what careth he for his house after him, When the number of his months is cut off? - [YLT] For what *is* his delight in his house after him, And the number of his months cut off? ### Notes on Job 21:21 - ## Job 21:22 - [KJV] Shall *any* teach God knowledge? seeing he judgeth those that are high. - [ASV] Shall any teach God knowledge, Seeing he judgeth those that are high? - [YLT] To God doth *one* teach knowledge, And He the high doth judge? ### Notes on Job 21:22 - ## Job 21:23 - [KJV] One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet. - [ASV] One dieth in his full strength, Being wholly at ease and quiet: - [YLT] This *one* dieth in his perfect strength, Wholly at ease and quiet. ### Notes on Job 21:23 - ## Job 21:24 - [KJV] His breasts are full of milk, and his bones are moistened with marrow. - [ASV] His pails are full of milk, And the marrow of his bones is moistened. - [YLT] His breasts have been full of milk, And marrow his bones doth moisten. ### Notes on Job 21:24 - ## Job 21:25 - [KJV] And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never eateth with pleasure. - [ASV] And another dieth in bitterness of soul, And never tasteth of good. - [YLT] And this *one* dieth with a bitter soul, And have not eaten with gladness. ### Notes on Job 21:25 - ## Job 21:26 - [KJV] They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them. - [ASV] They lie down alike in the dust, And the worm covereth them. - [YLT] Together -- on the dust they lie down, And the worm doth cover them over. ### Notes on Job 21:26 - ## Job 21:27 - [KJV] Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices *which* ye wrongfully imagine against me. - [ASV] Behold, I know your thoughts, And the devices wherewith ye would wrong me. - [YLT] Lo, I have known your thoughts, And the devices against me ye do wrongfully. ### Notes on Job 21:27 - ## Job 21:28 - [KJV] For ye say, Where *is* the house of the prince? and where *are* the dwelling places of the wicked? - [ASV] For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? And where is the tent wherein the wicked dwelt? - [YLT] For ye say, 'Where *is* the house of the noble? And where the tent -- The tabernacles of the wicked?' ### Notes on Job 21:28 - ## Job 21:29 - [KJV] Have ye not asked them that go by the way? and do ye not know their tokens, - [ASV] Have ye not asked wayfaring men? And do ye not know their evidences, - [YLT] Have ye not asked those passing by the way? And their signs do ye not know? ### Notes on Job 21:29 - ## Job 21:30 - [KJV] That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath. - [ASV] That the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity? That they are led forth to the day of wrath? - [YLT] That to a day of calamity is the wicked spared. To a day of wrath they are brought. ### Notes on Job 21:30 - ## Job 21:31 - [KJV] Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him *what* he hath done? - [ASV] Who shall declare his way to his face? And who shall repay him what he hath done? - [YLT] Who doth declare to his face his way? And *for* that which he hath done, Who doth give recompence to him? ### Notes on Job 21:31 - ## Job 21:32 - [KJV] Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb. - [ASV] Yet shall he be borne to the grave, And men shall keep watch over the tomb. - [YLT] And he -- to the graves he is brought. And over the heap a watch is kept. ### Notes on Job 21:32 - ## Job 21:33 - [KJV] The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, and every man shall draw after him, as *there are* innumerable before him. - [ASV] The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, And all men shall draw after him, As there were innumerable before him. - [YLT] Sweet to him have been the clods of the valley, And after him every man he draweth, And before him there is no numbering. ### Notes on Job 21:33 - ## Job 21:34 - [KJV] How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood? - [ASV] How then comfort ye me in vain, Seeing in your answers there remaineth *only* falsehood? - [YLT] And how do ye comfort me *with* vanity, And in your answers hath been left trespass? ### Notes on Job 21:34 -