Job 21, side by side
Two versions of the same chapter. Each row is one verse, so you can see how the wording changes.
1Then Job answered,
1But Job answered and said,
2“Listen diligently to my speech. Let this be your consolation.
2Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations.
3Allow me, and I also will speak; After I have spoken, mock on.
3Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on.
4As for me, is my complaint to man? Why shouldn’t I be impatient?
4As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled?
5Look at me, and be astonished. Lay your hand on your mouth.
5Mark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth.
6When I remember, I am troubled. Horror takes hold of my flesh.
6Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh.
7“Why do the wicked live, become old, yes, and grow mighty in power?
7Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?
8Their child is established with them in their sight, their offspring before their eyes.
8Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes.
9Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them.
9Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them.
10Their bulls breed without fail. Their cows calve, and don’t miscarry.
10Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf.
11They send out their little ones like a flock. Their children dance.
11They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.
12They sing to the tambourine and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the pipe.
12They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ.
13They spend their days in prosperity. In an instant they go down to Sheol.
13They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.
14They tell God, ‘Depart from us, for we don’t want to know about your ways.
14Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.
15What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What profit should we have, if we pray to him?’
15What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?
16Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand. The counsel of the wicked is far from me.
16Lo, their good is not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
17“How often is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out, that their calamity comes on them, that God distributes sorrows in his anger?
17How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and how oft cometh their destruction upon them! God distributeth sorrows in his anger.
18How often is it that they are as stubble before the wind, as chaff that the storm carries away?
18They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.
19You say, ‘God lays up his iniquity for his children.’ Let him recompense it to himself, that he may know it.
19God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know it.
20Let his own eyes see his destruction. Let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
20His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
21For what does he care for his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off?
21For 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, since he judges those who are high?
22Shall any teach God knowledge? seeing he judgeth those that are high.
23One dies in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.
23One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.
24His pails are full of milk. The marrow of his bones is moistened.
24His breasts are full of milk, and his bones are moistened with marrow.
25Another dies in bitterness of soul, and never tastes of good.
25And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never eateth with pleasure.
26They lie down alike in the dust. The worm covers them.
26They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them.
27“Behold, I know your thoughts, the plans with which you would wrong me.
27Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me.
28For you say, ‘Where is the house of the prince? Where is the tent in which the wicked lived?’
28For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked?
29Haven’t you asked wayfaring men? Don’t you know their evidences,
29Have ye not asked them that go by the way? and do ye not know their tokens,
30that the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity, That they are led out to the day of wrath?
30That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.
31Who will declare his way to his face? Who will repay him what he has done?
31Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him what he hath done?
32Yet he will be borne to the grave. Men will keep watch over the tomb.
32Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb.
33The clods of the valley will be sweet to him. All men will draw after him, as there were innumerable before him.
33The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, and every man shall draw after him, as there are innumerable before him.
34So how can you comfort me with nonsense, because in your answers there remains only falsehood?”
34How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood?
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