Add parallel Print Page Options

22 Can anyone (A)teach God knowledge,
In that He (B)judges those on high?
23 One (C)dies in his full strength,
Being wholly carefree and at ease;
24 His [a]sides are filled out with fat,
And the (D)marrow of his bones is moist,
25 But another dies with a bitter soul,
Never even eats anything good.
26 Together they (E)lie down in the dust,
And (F)worms cover them.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Job 21:24 As in Syr; Heb uncertain; some Heb mss render as his pails are full of milk

22 Can anyone teach knowledge to God,
since[a] he himself[b] judges high ones?
23 This one dies in full prosperity,[c]
completely[d] at ease and secure.
24 His vats are full with milk
and the marrow of his bones is moist.
25 Yet[e] another dies with a bitter inner self[f]
and has not tasted prosperity.
26 They lie down together in the dust,
and maggots cover them.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Job 21:22 Hebrew “and”
  2. Job 21:22 Emphatic personal pronoun
  3. Job 21:23 Literally “in the vigor of his prosperity”
  4. Job 21:23 Literally “all of him”
  5. Job 21:25 Hebrew “And”
  6. Job 21:25 Or “soul”