Job for Everyone by John Goldingay

Author:John Goldingay
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Biblical Studies, Wisdom Literature, Old Testament, Biblical Commentary, Religion
ISBN: 9780664239367
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Published: 2013-01-15T16:38:44+00:00

JOB 21:1–34

If Only Wickedness Did Get Its Reward!

1 Job replied:

2 Listen properly to my word; may this be your comfort.

3 Bear with me while I myself speak, and after I have spoken, you may mock.

4 Is it the case that I—that my lament is toward a human being?

So why should my temper not be short?

5 Look at me and be devastated; put your hand on your mouth.

6 When I am mindful of it, I am terrified; trembling seizes my flesh:

7 Why do faithless people live on, as they grow older get stronger in resources?

8 Their offspring are established before them, with them, their descendants are before their eyes.

9 Their households are at peace, without fear; no club of God is on them.

10 His bull breeds and does not fail; his cow delivers and does not miscarry.

11 They send their little ones out like sheep; their children skip about.

12 They lift [their voice] to tambourine and guitar, celebrate to the sound of the pipe.

13 They complete their days in good fortune and in peace go down to Sheol.

14 They say to God, “Go away from us, we do not want to acknowledge your ways.

15 What is Shadday that we should serve him, and what would we gain if we should pray to him?”

16 Now. Their good fortune is not in their own power; the plans of faithless people are far away from me.

17 How often does the lamp of faithless people go out and the disaster due to them come upon them, the destiny he allots in his anger,

18 [or] are they like straw before the wind, like chaff that the tempest snatches away

19 [or] does God store up his punishment for his children?— he should repay it to him so that he acknowledges it.

20 His eyes should see his destruction; he should drink Shadday’s wrath.

21 Because what does he want for his household after him when the number of his months has been curtailed?

22 Can one teach God knowledge, when he makes decisions over people on high?

23 One person dies in his full strength, all at ease and peaceful.

24 His pails are full of milk, and the marrow in his bones is juicy.

25 Another person dies tormented in spirit; he has not enjoyed good fortune.

26 Together they lie down in the dirt, and worms cover over them.

27 Now. I know your intentions, the plans with which you will do violence against me,

28 that you will say, “Where is the leader’s house, where is the tent that was the dwelling of the faithless people?”

29 Have you not asked people who travel, not recognized their evidences,

30 that on the day of disaster the evil person finds relief, on the day when acts of wrath are carried along?

31 Who describes his conduct to his face?— he has acted, who repays him?

32 That man is carried along to the graveyard, and someone watches over his tomb.

33 The clods in the wash are sweet to him; behind him everyone follows, and there is no numbering those before him.

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