Verse 12
Job 21:12
New Living Translation
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They sing with tambourine and harp.<br>They celebrate to the sound of the flute.<br>
Original Language Text
hebrew
יִ֭שְׂאוּ כְּ/תֹ֣ף וְ/כִנּ֑וֹר וְ֝/יִשְׂמְח֗וּ לְ/ק֣וֹל עוּגָֽב
English Translation
They will lift up with tambourine and lyre, and they will rejoice to the sound of the harp.
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Chapter 21 Context
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Then Job spoke again:
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“Listen closely to what I am saying.<br>That’s one consolation you can give me.<br>
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Bear with me, and let me speak.<br>After I have spoken, you may resume mocking me.<br>
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“My complaint is with God (Elohim), not with people.<br>I have good reason to be so impatient.<br>
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Look at me and be stunned.<br>Put your hand over your mouth in shock.<br>
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When I think about what I am saying, I shudder.<br>My body trembles.<br>
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“Why do the wicked prosper,<br>growing old and powerful?<br>
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They live to see their children grow up and settle down,<br>and they enjoy their grandchildren.<br>
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Their homes are safe from every fear,<br>and God (Elohim) does not punish them.<br>
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Their bulls never fail to breed.<br>Their cows bear calves and never miscarry.<br>
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They let their children frisk about like lambs.<br>Their little ones skip and dance.<br>
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They sing with tambourine and harp.<br>They celebrate to the sound of the flute.<br>
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They spend their days in prosperity,<br>then go down to the grave in peace.<br>
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And yet they say to God (Elohim), ‘Go away.<br>We want no part of you and your ways.<br>
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Who is the Almighty, and why should we obey him?<br>What good will it do us to pray?’<br>
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(They think their prosperity is of their own doing,<br>but I will have nothing to do with that kind...
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“Yet the light of the wicked never seems to be extinguished.<br>Do they ever have trouble?<br>Does G...
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Are they driven before the wind like straw?<br>Are they carried away by the storm like chaff?<br>Not...
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“‘Well,’ you say, ‘at least God (Elohim) will punish their children!’<br>But I say he should punish...
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Let them see their destruction with their own eyes.<br>Let them drink deeply of the anger of the Alm...
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For they will not care what happens to their family<br>after they are dead.<br>
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“But who can teach a lesson to God (Elohim),<br>since he judges even the most powerful?<br>
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One person dies in prosperity,<br>completely comfortable and secure,<br>
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the picture of good health,<br>vigorous and fit.<br>
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Another person dies in bitter poverty,<br>never having tasted the good life.<br>
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But both are buried in the same dust,<br>both eaten by the same maggots.<br>
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“Look, I know what you’re thinking.<br>I know the schemes you plot against me.<br>
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You will tell me of rich and wicked people<br>whose houses have vanished because of their sins.<br>
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But ask those who have been around,<br>and they will tell you the truth.<br>
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Evil people are spared in times of calamity<br>and are allowed to escape disaster.<br>
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No one criticizes them openly<br>or pays them back for what they have done.<br>
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When they are carried to the grave,<br>an honor guard keeps watch at their tomb.<br>
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A great funeral procession goes to the cemetery.<br>Many pay their respects as the body is laid to r...
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“How can your empty clichés comfort me?<br>All your explanations are lies!”<br>
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