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Jó 21 — Bíblia The Message, 2002 | Gospelmais
34 versículos · The Message, 2002
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1Job replied:
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1Then Job answered,
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2"Now listen to me carefully, please listen,at least do me the favor of listening.
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2“Listen diligently to my speech. Let this be your consolation.
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3Put up with me while I have my say—then you can mock me later to your heart's content.
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3Allow me, and I also will speak; After I have spoken, mock on.
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4"It's not you I'm complaining to—it's God.Is it any wonder I'm getting fed up with his silence?
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4As for me, is my complaint to man? Why shouldn’t I be impatient?
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5Take a good look at me. Aren't you appalled by what's happened?No! Don't say anything. I can do without your comments.
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5Look at me, and be astonished. Lay your hand on your mouth.
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6When I look back, I go into shock,my body is racked with spasms.
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6When I remember, I am troubled. Horror takes hold of my flesh.
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7Why do the wicked have it so good,live to a ripe old age and get rich?
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7“Why do the wicked live, become old, yes, and grow mighty in power?
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8They get to see their children succeed,get to watch and enjoy their grandchildren.
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8Their child is established with them in their sight, their offspring before their eyes.
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9Their homes are peaceful and free from fear;they never experience God's disciplining rod.
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9Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them.
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10Their bulls breed with great vigorand their cows calve without fail.
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10Their bulls breed without fail. Their cows calve, and don’t miscarry.
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11They send their children out to playand watch them frolic like spring lambs.
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11They send out their little ones like a flock. Their children dance.
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12They make music with fiddles and flutes,have good times singing and dancing.
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12They sing to the tambourine and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the pipe.
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13They have a long life on easy street,and die painlessly in their sleep.
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13They spend their days in prosperity. In an instant they go down to Sheol.
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14They say to God, 'Get lost!We've no interest in you or your ways.
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14They tell God, ‘Depart from us, for we don’t want to know about your ways.
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15Why should we have dealings with God Almighty?What's there in it for us?'
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15What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What profit should we have, if we pray to him?’
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16But they're wrong, dead wrong—they're not gods.It's beyond me how they can carry on like this!
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16Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand. The counsel of the wicked is far from me.
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17"Still, how often does it happen that the wicked fail,or disaster strikes,or they get their just deserts?
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17“How often is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out, that their calamity comes on them, that God distributes sorrows in his anger?
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18How often are they blown away by bad luck?Not very often.
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18How often is it that they are as stubble before the wind, as chaff that the storm carries away?
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19You might say, 'God is saving up the punishment for their children.'I say, 'Give it to them right now so they'll know whatthey've done!'
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19You say, ‘God lays up his iniquity for his children.’ Let him recompense it to himself, that he may know it.
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20They deserve to experience the effects of their evil,feel the full force of God's wrath firsthand.
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20Let his own eyes see his destruction. Let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
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21What do they care what happens to their familiesafter they're safely tucked away in the grave?
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21For what does he care for his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off?
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22"But who are we to tell God how to run his affairs?He's dealing with matters that are way over our heads.
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22“Shall any teach God knowledge, since he judges those who are high?
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23Some people die in the prime of life,with everything going for them—
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23One dies in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.
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24fat and sassy.
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24His pails are full of milk. The marrow of his bones is moistened.
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25Others die bitter and bereft,never getting a taste of happiness.
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25Another dies in bitterness of soul, and never tastes of good.
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26They're laid out side by side in the cemetery,where the worms can't tell one from the other.
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26They lie down alike in the dust. The worm covers them.
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27"I'm not deceived. I know what you're up to,the plans you're cooking up to bring me down.
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27“Behold, I know your thoughts, the devices with which you would wrong me.
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28Naively you claim that the castles of tyrants fall to pieces,that the achievements of the wicked collapse.
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28For you say, ‘Where is the house of the prince? Where is the tent in which the wicked lived?’
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29Have you ever asked world travelers how they see it?Have you not listened to their stories
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29Haven’t you asked wayfaring men? Don’t you know their evidences,
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30Of evil men and women who got off scot-free,who never had to pay for their wickedness?
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30that the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity, That they are led out to the day of wrath?
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31Did anyone ever confront them with their crimes?Did they ever have to face the music?
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31Who shall declare his way to his face? Who shall repay him what he has done?
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32Not likely—they're given fancy funeralswith all the trimmings,
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32Yet he will be borne to the grave. Men shall keep watch over the tomb.
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33Gently lowered into expensive graves,with everyone telling lies about how wonderful they were.
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33The clods of the valley shall be sweet to him. All men shall draw after him, as there were innumerable before him.
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34"So how do you expect me to get any comfort from your nonsense?Your so-called comfort is a tissue of lies."
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34So how can you comfort me with nonsense, because in your answers there remains only falsehood?”