욥기 21장 Coverdale Bible
- 1 Iob answered, and sayde:
- 2 O heare my wordes, and amende yor selues.
- 3 Suffre me a litle, that I maye speake also, and the laugh my wordes to scorne, yf ye will.
- 4 Is it with a man, that I make this disputacio? Which yf it were so, shulde not my sprete be the in sore trouble?
- 5 Marck me well, be aba?shed, and laye youre hade vpon youre mouth.
- 6 For whe I pondre & considre this, I am afrayed, and my flesh is smytten with feare.
- 7 Wherfore do wicked me lyue in health and prosperite, come to their olde age, & increase in riches?
- 8 Their childers children lyue in their sight, & their generacion before their eyes.
- 9 Their houses are safe from all feare, for the rodd of God doth not smyte the.
- 10 Their bullocke gendreth, and that not out of tyme: their cow calueth, and is not vnfrutefull.
- 11 They sende forth their children by flockes, and their sonnes lede the daunce.
- 12 They beare with them tabrettes and harpes, and haue instrumentes of musick at their pleasure.
- 13 They spende their dayes in welthynesse: but sodenly they go downe to hell.
- 14 They saye vnto God: go from vs, we desyre not the knowlege of thy wayes.
- 15 What maner of felowe is the Allmightie, that we shulde serue him? What profit shulde we haue, to submitte oure selues vnto him?
- 16 Lo, there is vtterly no goodnesse in them, therfore will not I haue to do with the councell of the vngodly.
- 17 How oft shal the candle of ye wicked be put out? how oft commeth their destruccion vpon them? O what sorowe shall God geue them for their parte in his wrath?
- 18 Yee they shal be euen as chaffe before the wynde, and as dust that the storme carieth awaye.
- 19 And though God saue their childre from soch sorowe, yet wil he so rewarde theselues, that they shal knowe it.
- 20 Their owne destruccion and misery shal they se with their eyes, and drynke of the fearfull wrath of the Allmighty.
- 21 For whath careth he, what become of his housholde after his death? whose monethes passe awaye swifter then an arowe.
- 22 In as moch the as God hath ye hyest power of all, who can teach him eny knowlege?
- 23 One dyeth now when he is mightie & at his best, rich and in prosperite:
- 24 euen when his bowels are at the fattest, and his bones full of mary.
- 25 Another dyeth in sorowe and heuynesse, and neuer had good daies.
- 26 Now slepe they both a like in the earth, & the wormes couer them.
- 27 But I knowe what ye thinke, yee and what ye ymagin agaynst me vnrightuously.
- 28 For ye saye: where is the prynces palace? where is the dwellynge of the vngodly:
- 29 Axe eny man that goeth by the waye, and (yf ye will not regarde their tokens & dedes) he shal tell you,
- 30 that the wicked is kepte vnto the daye of destruccion, and that the vngodly shalbe brought forth in the daye of wrath.
- 31 Who darre reproue him for his wayes to his face? who rewardeth him for the vngraciousnesse that he doth?
- 32 Yet shal he be brought to his graue, and watch amonge the heape of the deed.
- 33 The shal he be fayne to be buried amoge the stones by the broke syde. All men must folowe him, & there are innumerable gone before him.
- 34 O how vayne is the comforte yt ye geue me? Are not youre answeres cleane contrary to right and treuth?