Jb 21 (King James)

¹ But Job answered and said,
² Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations.
³ Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on.
⁴ As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled?
⁵ Mark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth.
⁶ Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh.
⁷ Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?
⁸ Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes.
⁹ Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them.
¹⁰ Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf.
¹¹ They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.
¹² They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ.
¹³ They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.
¹⁴ Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.
¹⁵ What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?
¹⁶ Lo, their good is not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
¹⁷ How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and how oft cometh their destruction upon them! God distributeth sorrows in his anger.
¹⁸ They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.
¹⁹ God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know it.
²⁰ His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
²¹ For what pleasure hath he in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off in the midst?
²² Shall any teach God knowledge? seeing he judgeth those that are high.
²³ One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.
²⁴ His breasts are full of milk, and his bones are moistened with marrow.
²⁵ And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never eateth with pleasure.
²⁶ They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them.
²⁷ Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me.
²⁸ For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked?
²⁹ Have ye not asked them that go by the way? and do ye not know their tokens,
³⁰ That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.
³¹ Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him what he hath done?
³² Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb.
³³ The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, and every man shall draw after him, as there are innumerable before him.
³⁴ How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood?

Jb 21 (Vulgate)

¹ Respondens autem Job, dixit :
² [Audite, quæso, sermones meos, et agite pœnitentiam.
³ Sustinete me, et ego loquar : et post mea, si videbitur, verba, ridete.
⁴ Numquid contra hominem disputatio mea est, ut merito non debeam contristari ?
⁵ Attendite me et obstupescite, et superponite digitum ori vestro.
⁶ Et ego, quando recordatus fuero, pertimesco, et concutit carnem meam tremor.
⁷ Quare ergo impii vivunt, sublevati sunt, confortatique divitiis ?
⁸ Semen eorum permanet coram eis : propinquorum turba et nepotum in conspectu eorum.
⁹ Domus eorum securæ sunt et pacatæ, et non est virga Dei super illos.
¹⁰ Bos eorum concepit, et non abortivit : vacca peperit, et non est privata fœtu suo.
¹¹ Egrediuntur quasi greges parvuli eorum, et infantes eorum exsultant lusibus.
¹² Tenent tympanum et citharam, et gaudent ad sonitum organi.
¹³ Ducunt in bonis dies suos, et in puncto ad inferna descendunt.
¹⁴ Qui dixerunt Deo : Recede a nobis, et scientiam viarum tuarum nolumus.
¹⁵ Quis est Omnipotens, ut serviamus ei ? et quid nobis prodest si oraverimus illum ?
¹⁶ Verumtamen quia non sunt in manu eorum bona sua, consilium impiorum longe sit a me.
¹⁷ Quoties lucerna impiorum extinguetur, et superveniet eis inundatio, et dolores dividet furoris sui ?
¹⁸ Erunt sicut paleæ ante faciem venti, et sicut favilla quam turbo dispergit.
¹⁹ Deus servabit filiis illius dolorem patris, et cum reddiderit, tunc sciet.
²⁰ Videbunt oculi ejus interfectionem suam, et de furore Omnipotentis bibet.
²¹ Quid enim ad eum pertinet de domo sua post se, et si numerus mensium ejus dimidietur ?
²² Numquid Deus docebit quispiam scientiam, qui excelsos judicat ?
²³ Iste moritur robustus et sanus, dives et felix :
²⁴ viscera ejus plena sunt adipe, et medullis ossa illius irrigantur :
²⁵ alius vero moritur in amaritudine animæ absque ullis opibus :
²⁶ et tamen simul in pulvere dormient, et vermes operient eos.
²⁷ Certe novi cogitationes vestras, et sententias contra me iniquas.
²⁸ Dicitis enim : Ubi est domus principis ? et ubi tabernacula impiorum ?
²⁹ Interrogate quemlibet de viatoribus, et hæc eadem illum intelligere cognoscetis :
³⁰ quia in diem perditionis servatur malus, et ad diem furoris ducetur.
³¹ Quis arguet coram eo viam ejus ? et quæ fecit, quis reddet illi ?
³² Ipse ad sepulchra ducetur, et in congerie mortuorum vigilabit.
³³ Dulcis fuit glareis Cocyti, et post se omnem hominem trahet, et ante se innumerabiles.
³⁴ Quomodo igitur consolamini me frustra, cum responsio vestra repugnare ostensa sit veritati ?]