Pendapat Ayub, bahwa kemujuran orang fasik kelihatannya tahan lama
Ayb 21:1 Tetapi Ayub menjawab:
Ayb 21:2 "Dengarkanlah baik-baik perkataanku dan biarlah itu menjadi penghiburanmu.
Ayb 21:3 Bersabarlah dengan aku, aku akan berbicara; sehabis bicaraku bolehlah kamu mengejek.
Ayb 21:4 Kepada manusiakah keluhanku tertuju? Mengapa aku tidak boleh kesal hati?
Ayb 21:5 Berpalinglah kepadaku, maka kamu akan tercengang, dan menutup mulutmu dengan tangan!
Ayb 21:6 Kalau aku memikirkannya, aku menjadi takut, dan gemetarlah tubuhku.
Ayb 21:7 Mengapa orang fasik tetap hidup, menjadi tua, bahkan menjadi bertambah-tambah kuat?
Ayb 21:8 Keturunan mereka tetap bersama mereka, dan anak cucu diperhatikan mereka.
Ayb 21:9 Rumah-rumah mereka aman, tak ada ketakutan, pentung Allah tidak menimpa mereka.
Ayb 21:10 Lembu jantan mereka memacek dan tidak gagal, lembu betina mereka beranak dan tidak keguguran.
Ayb 21:11 Kanak-kanak mereka dibiarkan keluar seperti kambing domba, anak-anak mereka melompat-lompat.
Ayb 21:12 Mereka bernyanyi-nyanyi dengan iringan rebana dan kecapi, dan bersukaria menurut lagu seruling.
Ayb 21:13 Mereka menghabiskan hari-hari mereka dalam kemujuran, dan dengan tenang mereka turun ke dalam dunia orang mati.
Ayb 21:14 Tetapi kata mereka kepada Allah: Pergilah dari kami! Kami tidak suka mengetahui jalan-jalan-Mu.
Ayb 21:15 Yang Mahakuasa itu apa, sehingga kami harus beribadah kepada-Nya, dan apa manfaatnya bagi kami, kalau kami memohon kepada-Nya?
Ayb 21:16 Memang, kemujuran mereka tidak terletak dalam kuasa mereka sendiri! Rancangan orang fasik adalah jauh dari padaku.
Ayb 21:17 Betapa sering pelita orang fasik dipadamkan, kebinasaan menimpa mereka, dan kesakitan dibagikan Allah kepada mereka dalam murka-Nya!
Ayb 21:18 Mereka menjadi seperti jerami di depan angin, seperti sekam yang diterbangkan badai.
Ayb 21:19 Bencana untuk dia disimpan Allah bagi anak-anaknya. Sebaiknya, orang itu sendiri diganjar Allah, supaya sadar;
Ayb 21:20 sebaiknya matanya sendiri melihat kebinasaannya, dan ia sendiri minum dari murka Yang Mahakuasa!
Ayb 21:21 Karena peduli apa ia dengan keluarganya sesudah ia mati, bila telah habis jumlah bulannya?
Ayb 21:22 Masakan kepada Allah diajarkan orang pengetahuan, kepada Dia yang mengadili mereka yang di tempat tinggi?
Ayb 21:23 Yang seorang mati dengan masih penuh tenaga, dengan sangat tenang dan sentosa;
Ayb 21:24 pinggangnya gemuk oleh lemak, dan sumsum tulang-tulangnya masih segar.
Ayb 21:25 Yang lain mati dengan sakit hati, dengan tidak pernah merasakan kenikmatan.
Ayb 21:26 Tetapi sama-sama mereka terbaring di dalam debu, dan berenga-berenga berkeriapan di atas mereka.
Ayb 21:27 Sesungguhnya, aku mengetahui pikiranmu, dan muslihat yang kamu rancangkan terhadap aku.
Ayb 21:28 Katamu: Di mana rumah penguasa? Di mana kemah tempat kediaman orang-orang fasik?
Ayb 21:29 Belum pernahkah kamu bertanya-tanya kepada orang-orang yang lewat di jalan? Dapatkah kamu menyangkal petunjuk-petunjuk mereka,
Ayb 21:30 bahwa orang jahat terlindung pada hari kebinasaan, dan diselamatkan pada hari murka Allah?
Ayb 21:31 Siapa yang akan langsung menggugat kelakuannya, dan mengganjar perbuatannya?
Ayb 21:32 Dialah yang dibawa ke kuburan, dan jiratnya dirawat orang.
Ayb 21:33 Dengan nyaman ia ditutupi oleh gumpalan-gumpalan tanah di lembah; setiap orang mengikuti dia, dan yang mendahului dia tidak terbilang banyaknya.
Ayb 21:34 Alangkah hampanya penghiburanmu bagiku! Semua jawabanmu hanyalah tipu daya belaka!"
Job 21:1 But Job answered and said,
Job 21:2 Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations.
Job 21:3 Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on.
Job 21:4 As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled?
Job 21:5 Mark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth.
Job 21:6 Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh.
Job 21:7 Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?
Job 21:8 Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes.
Job 21:9 Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them.
Job 21:10 Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf.
Job 21:11 They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.
Job 21:12 They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ.
Job 21:13 They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.
Job 21:14 Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.
Job 21:15 What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?
Job 21:16 Lo, their good is not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
Job 21:17 How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and how oft cometh their destruction upon them! God distributeth sorrows in his anger.
Job 21:18 They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.
Job 21:19 God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know it.
Job 21:20 His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
Job 21:21 For what pleasure hath he in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off in the midst?
Job 21:22 Shall any teach God knowledge? seeing he judgeth those that are high.
Job 21:23 One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.
Job 21:24 His breasts are full of milk, and his bones are moistened with marrow.
Job 21:25 And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never eateth with pleasure.
Job 21:26 They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them.
Job 21:27 Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me.
Job 21:28 For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked?
Job 21:29 Have ye not asked them that go by the way? and do ye not know their tokens,
Job 21:30 That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.
Job 21:31 Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him what he hath done?
Job 21:32 Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb.
Job 21:33 The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, and every man shall draw after him, as there are innumerable before him.
Job 21:34 How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood?
