New English Translation

Job 21:18-23 New English Translation (NET)

18. How often are they like straw before the wind,and like chaff swept away by a whirlwind?

19. You may say, ‘God stores up a man’s punishment for his children!’Instead let him repay the man himself so that he may know it!

20. Let his own eyes see his destruction;let him drink of the anger of the Almighty.

21. For what is his interest in his home after his death,when the number of his months has been broken off?

22. Can anyone teach God knowledge,since he judges those that are on high?

23. “One man dies in his full vigor,completely secure and prosperous,