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Job
Explores the themes of suffering and faith through the story of Job, a man tested by losing everything.
Chapter 21
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1
KJV:
But Job answered and said,
Geneva:
Bvt Iob answered, and sayd,
2
KJV:
Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations.
Geneva:
Heare diligently my wordes, and this shalbe in stead of your consolations.
3
KJV:
Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on.
Geneva:
Suffer mee, that I may speake, and when I haue spoken, mocke on.
4
KJV:
As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled?
Geneva:
Doe I direct my talke to man? If it were so, how should not my spirit be troubled?
5
KJV:
Mark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth.
Geneva:
Marke mee, and be abashed, and lay your hand vpon your mouth.
6
KJV:
Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh.
Geneva:
Euen when I remember, I am afrayde, and feare taketh hold on my flesh.
7
KJV:
Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?
Geneva:
Wherefore do the wicked liue, and waxe olde, and grow in wealth?
8
KJV:
Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes.
Geneva:
Their seede is established in their sight with them, and their generation before their eyes.
9
KJV:
Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them.
Geneva:
Their houses are peaceable without feare, and the rod of God is not vpon them.
10
KJV:
Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf.
Geneva:
Their bullocke gendreth, and fayleth not: their cow calueth, and casteth not her calfe.
11
KJV:
They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.
Geneva:
They send forth their children like sheepe, and their sonnes dance.
12
KJV:
They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ.
Geneva:
They take the tabret & harpe, and reioyce in the sound of the organs.
13
KJV:
They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.
Geneva:
They spend their dayes in wealth, and suddenly they go downe to the graue.
14
KJV:
Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.
Geneva:
They say also vnto God, Depart fro vs: for we desire not the knowledge of thy wayes.
15
KJV:
What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?
Geneva:
Who is the Almightie, that we should serue him? and what profit should we haue, if we should pray vnto him?
16
KJV:
Lo, their good is not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
Geneva:
Lo, their wealth is not in their hand: therfore let the counsell of the wicked bee farre from me.
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.
Geneva:
How oft shal the candle of the wicked be put out? and their destruction come vpon them? he wil deuide their liues in his wrath.
18
KJV:
They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.
Geneva:
They shall be as stubble before the winde, and as chaffe that the storme carieth away.
19
KJV:
God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know it.
Geneva:
God wil lay vp the sorowe of the father for his children: when he rewardeth him, hee shall knowe it.
20
KJV:
His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
Geneva:
His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drinke of the wrath of the Almightie.
21
KJV:
For what pleasure hath he in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off in the midst?
Geneva:
For what pleasure hath he in his house after him, when the nomber of his moneths is cut off?
22
KJV:
Shall any teach God knowledge? seeing he judgeth those that are high.
Geneva:
Shall any teache God knowledge, who iudgeth the hiest things?
23
KJV:
One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.
Geneva:
One dyeth in his full strength, being in all ease and prosperitie.
24
KJV:
His breasts are full of milk, and his bones are moistened with marrow.
Geneva:
His breasts are full of milke, and his bones runne full of marowe.
25
KJV:
And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never eateth with pleasure.
Geneva:
And another dieth in the bitternes of his soule, and neuer eateth with pleasure.
26
KJV:
They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them.
Geneva:
They shal sleepe both in the dust, & the wormes shal couer them.
27
KJV:
Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me.
Geneva:
Behold, I know your thoughts, and the enterprises, wherewith ye do me wrong.
28
KJV:
For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked?
Geneva:
For ye say, Where is the princes house? & where is the tabernacle of the wickeds dwelling?
29
KJV:
Have ye not asked them that go by the way? and do ye not know their tokens,
Geneva:
May ye not aske the that go by the way? and ye can not deny their signes.
30
KJV:
That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.
Geneva:
But the wicked is kept vnto the day of destruction, and they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.
31
KJV:
Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him what he hath done?
Geneva:
Who shal declare his way to his face? & who shal reward him for that he hath done?
32
KJV:
Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb.
Geneva:
Yet shal he be brought to the graue, & remaine in the heape.
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.
Geneva:
The slimie valley shalbe sweete vnto him, and euery man shal draw after him, as before him there were innumerable.
34
KJV:
How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood?
Geneva:
How then comfort ye me in vaine, seeing in your answeres there remaine but lyes?
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