Kniha Jób

Biblia - Sväté písmo

(UKJV - Anglický - Updated King James)

Jób 21, 1-34

1 But Job answered and said, 2 Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations. 3 "Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on. " 4 As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled? 5 Mark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth. 6 Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling takes hold on my flesh. 7 Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power? 8 Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes. 9 Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them. 10 "Their bull genders, and fails not; their cow calves, and casts not her calf. " 11 They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance. 12 They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ. 13 They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave. 14 "Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of your ways. " 15 What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him? 16 Lo, their good is not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me. 17 How often is the candle of the wicked put out! and how often comes their destruction upon them! God distributes sorrows in his anger. 18 They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carries away. 19 God lays up his iniquity for his children: he rewards him, and he shall know it. 20 His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty. 21 For what pleasure has he in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off in the midst? 22 Shall any teach God knowledge? seeing he judges those that are high. 23 One dies in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet. 24 His breasts are full of milk, and his bones are moistened with marrow. 25 And another dies in the bitterness of his soul, and never eats with pleasure. 26 They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them. 27 Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which all of you wrongfully imagine against me. 28 For all of you say, Where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked? 29 Have all of you not asked them that go by the way? and do all of you not know their tokens, 30 That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath. 31 Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him what he has done? 32 Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb. 33 The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, and every man shall draw after him, as there are innumerable before him. 34 How then comfort all of you me in vain, seeing in your answers there remains falsehood?

Verš 7

Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?

Ž 17:10 - They are enclosed in their own fat: with their mouth they speak proudly.

Ž 73:12 - "Behold, these are the ungodly, who prosper in the world; they increase in riches. "

Jer 12:1 - Righteous are you, O LORD, when I plead with you: yet let me talk with you of your judgments: Wherefore does the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously?

Hab 1:16 - "Therefore they sacrifice unto their net, and burn incense unto their drag; because by them their portion is fat, and their food abundant. "

Verš 14

"Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of your ways. "

Jób 22:17 - Which said unto God, Depart from us: and what can the Almighty do for them?

Verš 15

What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?

Ex 5:2 - And Pharaoh said, Who is the LORD, that I should obey his voice to let Israel go? I know not the LORD, neither will I let Israel go.

Mal 3:14 - All of you have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD of hosts?

Verš 16

Lo, their good is not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

Jób 22:18 - Yet he filled their houses with good things: but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

Verš 17

How often is the candle of the wicked put out! and how often comes their destruction upon them! God distributes sorrows in his anger.

Jób 20:29 - This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed unto him by God.

Ž 11:6 - Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and an horrible tempest: this shall be the portion of their cup.

Verš 22

Shall any teach God knowledge? seeing he judges those that are high.

Iz 40:13 - Who has directed the Spirit of the LORD, or being his counsellor has taught him?

Rim 11:34 - For who has known the mind of the Lord? or who has been his counsellor?

1Kor 2:16 - For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.

Verš 26

They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them.

Jób 17:14 - I have said to corruption, You are my father: to the worm, You are my mother, and my sister.

Verš 30

That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.

Prís 16:4 - The LORD has made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.

Job 21,3 - Jób sa stavia asi proti mienke a tvrdeniu Sofarovmu, že Boh tresce hriešnikov odňatím zemského blahobytu. Jób v nasledujúcich veršoch prináša dôkazy o svojej opačnej skúsenosti, keď pripomína, že bezbožníkom sa spravidla dobre vedie na svete (verš 7 a n.) a veľmi často oplývajú blahobytom.

Job 21,5 - "Ruku si dať na ústa" je znakom mlčanlivosti, odmlčania sa.

Job 21,16-21 - Jób zopakuje tvrdenie svojich priateľov (verš 16) a pýta sa, ako často sa stáva, že sa hriešnik dostane do nešťastia (verš 17). Na námietku, že pomsta a nešťastie stihnú aspoň potomkov hriešneho človeka, Jób odpovedá, že z takejto odvety a pomsty hriešnik po svojej smrti už ničoho necíti (verše 19–21).

Job 21,22-26 - Jób zopakuje ďalšiu námietku svojich priateľov (verš 22), na ktorú odpovedá svojím poukazom na nerovný osud mnohých ľudí na tomto svete a na ich smutný podiel v podsvetí (verše 23–26).

Job 21,27-32 - Jób odmietne aj štvrtú námietku svojich priateľov, ako by jeho nešťastie bolo možno vysvetliť a odôvodniť len jeho hriešnosťou (verš 27). Oproti tomu vyhlasuje, že skúsenosť učí, že hriešnik je od zla často uchránený a ušetrený (verš 30).