Verse 22
Job 21:22
Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition
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Shall any one teach God (Elohim) knowledge, who judgeth those that are high?
Original Language Text
hebrew
הַ/לְ/אֵ֥ל יְלַמֶּד דָּ֑עַת וְ֝/ה֗וּא רָמִ֥ים יִשְׁפּֽוֹט
English Translation
Will God teach knowledge, and He will judge the lofty.
AI translation from hebrew via gpt-4o-mini
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Chapter 21 Context
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Then Job answered, and said:
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Hear, I beseech you, my words, and do penance.
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Suffer me, and I will speak, and after, if you please, laugh at my words.
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Is my debate against man, that I should not have just reason to be troubled?
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Hearken to me and be astonished, and lay your finger on your mouth.
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As for me, when I remember, I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh.
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Why then do the wicked live, are they advanced, and strengthened with riches?
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Their seed continueth before them, a multitude of kinsmen, and of children's children in their sight...
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Their houses are secure and peaceable, and the rod of God (Elohim) is not upon them.
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Their cattle have conceived, and failed not: their cow has calved, and is not deprived of her fruit.
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Their little ones go out like a flock, and their children dance and play.
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They take the timbrel, and the harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ.
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They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment they go down to hell.
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Who have said to God (Elohim): Depart from us, we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.
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Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what doth it profit us if we pray to him?
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Yet because their good things are not in their hand, may the counsel of the wicked be far from me.
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How often shall the lamp of the wicked be put out, and a deluge come upon them, and he shall distrib...
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They shall be as chaff before the face of the wind, and as ashes which the whirlwind scattereth.
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God (Elohim) shall lay up the sorrow of the father for his children: and when he shall repay, then s...
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His eyes shall see his own destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
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For what is it to him what befalleth his house after him: and if the number of his months be diminis...
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Shall any one teach God (Elohim) knowledge, who judgeth those that are high?
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One man dieth strong, and hale, rich and happy.
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His bowels are full of fat, and his bones are moistened with marrow.
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But another dieth in bitterness of soul without any riches:
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And yet they shall sleep together in the dust, and worms shall cover them.
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Surely I know your thoughts, and your unjust judgments against me.
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For you say: Where is the house of the prince ? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked?
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Ask any one of them that go by the way, and you shall perceive that he knoweth these same things.
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Because the wicked man is reserved to the day of destruction, and he shall be brought to the day of...
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Who shall reprove his way to his face? and who shall repay him what he hath done?
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He shall be brought to the graves, and shall watch in the heap of the dead.
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He hath been acceptable to the gravel of Cocytus, and he shall draw every man after him, and there a...
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How then do ye comfort me in vain, whereas your answer is shewn to be repugnant to truth ?
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