- 1. ¶ THEN Job answered and said,
- 2. Listen diligently to my speech, and let this be your consolation.
- 3. Suffer me that I may speak; and after I have spoken, then mock on.
- 4. I will utter my complaint to men, why my spirit is distressed.
- 5. Return to me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth.
- 6. Even when I think of it, I tremble, and terror takes hold of my flesh.
- 7. ¶ Why do the ungodly live, and why are the mighty in power full of years?
- 8. Their descendants are established in their sight with them, and their children before their eyes.
- 9. Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them.
- 10. Their bull breeds, and fails not; their cow calves, and does not cast her calf.
- 11. Their children stand firm like a flock, and their boys dance.
- 12. They take the timbrels and harps, and rejoice at the sound of singing.
- 13. They spend their days in prosperity, and then suddenly go down to Sheol.
- 14. They say to God, Depart from us; for we do not desire to know thy ways.
- 15. Moreover, they say, Who is God, that we should serve him? And what would we gain, that we should pray to him?
- 16. Lo, they have no power over their prosperity; the counsel of the ungodly is far from me.
- 17. ¶ How often is it that the wicked are left without an heir! how often their destruction comes upon them! God distributes sorrows in his anger.
- 18. They are like straw before the wind, and like chaff that the storm carries away.
- 19. God reserves man’s iniquity for his children; he pays it back to 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 a portion of his years shall be reserved for his posterity?
- 22. Shall any teach God knowledge, seeing it is he who judges the proud?
- 23. One dies in his full strength, sound of body, being wholly confident, and at ease.
- 24. His body is full of fat, and his bones are filled with marrow.
- 25. And another dies in the bitterness of his soul, never having tasted prosperity.
- 26. They shall lie down in the dust, and the worms shall cover them.
- 27. ¶ Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which you wrongfully imagine against me.
- 28. For you say. Where is the house of the righteous? And where is the place in which the wicked has pitched his tent?
- 29. Have you not asked those who pass by the way? And do you not recognize their tokens?
- 30. For the evil man is reserved for the day of destruction, he shall be remembered in the day of wrath.
- 31. Who can show him the way? And who shall repay him for what he has done?
- 32. Yet he shall be brought to the grave, he is reserved for misfortune.
- 33. The depths of the valley shall swallow him, and many shall be drawn in after him, even as there are innumerable ahead of him.
- 34. How then can you comfort me in vain, seeing that your abominable answers are multiplied before me?
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