Job 21 :: Brenton's English Septuagint (BES)

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Job 21:1But Job answered and said,

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Job 21:2Hear ye, hear ye my words, that I may not have this consolation from you.

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Job 21:3Raise me, and I will speak; then ye shall not laugh me to scorn.

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Job 21:4What! is my reproof of man? and why should I not be angry?

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Job 21:5Look upon me, and wonder, laying your hand upon your cheek.

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Job 21:6For even when I remember, I am alarmed, and pains seize my flesh.

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Job 21:7Wherefore do the ungodly live, and grow old even in wealth?

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Job 21:8Their seed is according to their desire, and their children are in their sight.

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Job 21:9Their houses are prosperous, neither have they any where cause for fear, neither is there a scourge from the Lord upon them.

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Job 21:10Their cow does not cast her calf, and their beast with young is safe, and does not miscarry.

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Job 21:11And they remain as an unfailing flock, and their children play before them, taking up the psaltery and harp;

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Job 21:12and they rejoice at the voice of a song.

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Job 21:13And they spend their days in wealth, and fall asleep in the rest of the grave.

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Job 21:14Yet such a man says to the Lord, Depart from me; I desire not to know thy ways.

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Job 21:15What is the Mighty One, that we should serve him? and what profit is there that we should approach him?

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Job 21:16For their good things were in their hands, but he regards not the works of the ungodly.

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Job 21:17Nevertheless, the lamp of the ungodly also shall be put out, and destruction shall come upon them, and pangs of vengeance shall seize them.

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Job 21:18And they shall be as chaff before the wind, or as dust which the storm has taken up.

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Job 21:19Let his substance fail to supply his children: God shall recompense him, and he shall know it.

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Job 21:20Let his eyes see his own destruction, and let him not be saved by the Lord.

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Job 21:21For his desire is in his house with him, and the number of his months has been suddenly cut off.

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Job 21:22Is it not the Lord who teaches understanding and knowledge? and does not he judge murders?

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Job 21:23One shall die in his perfect strength, and wholly at ease and prosperous;

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Job 21:24and his inwards are full of fat, and his marrow is diffused throughout him.

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Job 21:25And another dies in bitterness of soul, not eating any good thing.

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Job 21:26But they lie down in the earth together, and corruption covers them.

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Job 21:27So I know you, that ye presumptuously attack me:

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Job 21:28so that ye will say, Where is the house of the prince? and where is the covering of the tabernacles of the ungodly?

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Job 21:29Ask those that go by the way, and do not disown their tokens.

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Job 21:30For the wicked hastens to the day of destruction: they shall be led away for the day of his vengeance.

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Job 21:31Who will tell him his way to his face, whereas he has done it? who shall recompense him?

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Job 21:32And he has been led away to the tombs, and he has watched over the heaps.

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Job 21:33The stones of the valley have been sweet to him, and every man shall depart after him, and there are innumerable ones before him.

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Job 21:34How then do ye comfort me in vain? whereas I have no rest from your molestation.

Translation of the Greek Septuagint into English by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton, originally published in 1851 and is now in the Public Domain

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