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Job 21

7 Job declareth how the prosperitie of the wicked maketh them proud. 15 In so much that they blaspheme God. 16 Their destruction is at hand 23 None oght to be judged wicked for affliction, nether good for prosperitie.
1.But Job answered, & said,
2.Heare diligently my wordes, and this ashalbe in stead of your consolations.
3.Suffre me, that I may speake, and when I have spoken, mock on.
4.Do I direct my talke to man? If it bwere so, how shulde not my spirit be troubled?
5.Marke me, and be abashed, and lay your hand upon your cmouth.
6.Even when I remember, I am afraied, & feare taketh holde on my flesh.
7.Wherefore do the wicked dlive, and waxe olde, and growe in welth?
8.Their sede is established in their sight with them, and their generacion before their eies.
9.Their houses are peaceable without feare, and the rod of God is not upon them.
10.Their bullocke gendreth, & faileth not: their cowe calveth, and casteth not her calfe.
11.They send forthe their children elike shepe, and their sonnes dance.
12.They take the tabret and harpe, & rejoyce in the sounde of the organs.
13.They spend their daies in welth, and sodenly fthey go downe to the grave.
14.Thei say also unto God, Depart from us: for we desire not the gknowledge of thy waies.
15.Who is the Almightie, that we shulde serve him? and what profite shulde we have, if we shulde pray unto him?
16.Lo, their welth is not in their hand: htherefore let the counsel of the wicked ibe farre from me.
17.How oft shal the candel of the wicked be put out? and their destruction come upon them? he will devide their lives in his wrath.
18.They shal be as stubble before the winde, and as chaffe that the storme caryeth away.
19.God wil lay up the sorow of the father for his children: when he rewardeth him, he shal knowe it.
20.kHis eies shal se his destruction, and he shal drinke of the wrath of the Almightie.
21.For what pleasure hathe he in his house after him, when the nomber of his moneths is cut of?
22.Shal any teache lGod knowledge, who judgeth the hiest things?
23.One mdyeth in his ful strength, being in all ease and prosperitie.
24.His breasts are full of milke, and his bones runne ful of marowe.
25.And another ndyeth in the bitternes of his soule, & never eateth with pleasure.
26.They shal slepe bothe in othe dust, and the wormes shal cover them.
27.Beholde, I know your thoghts, and the enterprises, wherewith ye do me wrong.
28.For ye say, Where is the prince’s phouse? and where is the tabernacle of the wicked’s dwelling?
29.May ye not qaske them that go by the way? and ye can not denie their signes.
30.But the wicked is kept unto the day of rdestruction, and they shal be broght forthe to the day of wrath.
31.Who shal declare his waie sto his face? and who shal rewarde him for that he hathe done? Job exhorted to repentance. Job. 21:3
32.Yet shal he be broght to the grave, and remaine in the heape.
33.The tslimie valley shalbe swete unto him, and everie man shal drawe after him, as before him there were innumerable.
34.How then comfort uye me in vaine, seing in your answers there remaine but lyes?

Notes

2-a.
Your diligent marking of my words shall be to me a great conso- lation.
4-b.
As though he would say, I do not talk with man, but with God, who will not answer me, and therefore my mind must needs be troubled.
5-c.
He charged them as though they were not able to comprehend this his feeling of God’s judgement, and exhorts them therefore to silence.
7-d.
Job proved against his adversaries that God punishes not straight ways the wicked, but oft times gives them long life, and prosperity: so that we must not judge God just or unjust by the things that appear to our eye. 1 Geneva Bible 1560
11-e.
They have store of children, lusty and healthful, and in these points he answers to that which Zophar alleged before.
13-f.
Not being tormented with long sickness.
14-g.
They desire nothing more then to be exempt from all subjection that they should bear to God: this Job shows his adversaries, that if they reason only by that which is seen by common experience, the wicked that hate God, are better dealt withal, then they that love him.
16-h.
It is not their own, but God only lends it unto them.
16-i.
God keep me from their prosperity.
20-k.
When God recompenses his wickedness he shall know that his posterity was but vanity.
22-l.
Who sends to the wicked prosperity, and punishes the godly.
23-m.
Meaning, the wicked.
25-n.
To wit, the godly.
26-o.
As concerning their bodies: and this he speaks according to the common judgement.
28-p.
Thus they called Job’s house in derision, concluding that it was destroyed because he was wicked.
29-q.
Which through long travailing have experience & tokens here of, to wit, that the wicked do prosper & the godly live in affliction.
30-r.
Though the wicked florish here, yet God will punish him in the last day.
31-s.
Though men do flatter him, & none dare reprove him in this world, yet death is a token that God will bring him to an account. 5
33-t.
He shall be glad to lie in a slimy pit, which before could not be content with a royal palace.
34-u.
Saying, that the just in this world have prosperity and the wicked adversity.