translation_id: asv-eng-asv

book_id: JOB

book: Job

text: Then Job answered and said,


text: Hear diligently my speech; And let this be your consolations.


text: Suffer me, and I also will speak; And after that I have spoken, mock on.


text: As for me, is my complaint to man? And why should I not be impatient?


text: Mark me, and be astonished, And lay your hand upon your mouth.


text: Even when I remember I am troubled, And horror taketh hold on my flesh.


text: Wherefore do the wicked live, Become old, yea, wax mighty in power?


text: Their seed is established with them in their sight, And their offspring before their eyes.


text: Their houses are safe from fear, Neither is the rod of God upon them.


text: Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; Their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf.


text: They send forth their little ones like a flock, And their children dance.


text: They sing to the timbrel and harp, And rejoice at the sound of the pipe.


text: They spend their days in prosperity, And in a moment they go down to Sheol.


text: And they say unto God, Depart from us; For we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.


text: What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? And what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?


text: Lo, their prosperity is not in their hand: The counsel of the wicked is far from me.


text: 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?


text: That they are as stubble before the wind, And as chaff that the storm carrieth away?


text: Ye say, God layeth up his iniquity for his children. Let him recompense it unto himself, that he may know it:


text: Let his own eyes see his destruction, And let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.


text: For what careth he for his house after him, When the number of his months is cut off?


text: Shall any teach God knowledge, Seeing he judgeth those that are high?


text: One dieth in his full strength, Being wholly at ease and quiet:


text: His pails are full of milk, And the marrow of his bones is moistened.


text: And another dieth in bitterness of soul, And never tasteth of good.


text: They lie down alike in the dust, And the worm covereth them.


text: Behold, I know your thoughts, And the devices wherewith ye would wrong me.


text: For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? And where is the tent wherein the wicked dwelt?


text: Have ye not asked wayfaring men? And do ye not know their evidences,


text: That the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity? That they are led forth to the day of wrath?


text: Who shall declare his way to his face? And who shall repay him what he hath done?


text: Yet shall he be borne to the grave, And men shall keep watch over the tomb.


text: The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, And all men shall draw after him, As there were innumerable before him.


text: How then comfort ye me in vain, Seeing in your answers there remaineth only falsehood?