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  • 1. And Job answered and said,
  • 2. Hear attentively my speech, and let this replace your consolations.
  • 3. Suffer me and I will speak; and after I have spoken, mock on!
  • 4. As for me, is my complaint to a man? or wherefore should not my spirit be impatient?
  • 5. Mark me, and be astonished, and lay the hand upon the mouth.
  • 6. Even when I think [thereon], I am affrighted, and trembling taketh hold of my flesh.
  • 7. Wherefore do the wicked live, grow old, yea, become mighty in power?
  • 8. Their seed is established with them in their sight, and their offspring before their eyes.
  • 9. Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of +God upon them.
  • 10. Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf.
  • 11. They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.
  • 12. They shout to the tambour and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the pipe.
  • 13. They spend their days in prosperity, and in a moment go down to Sheol.
  • 14. And they say unto �God, Depart from us, for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways!
  • 15. What is the Almighty that we should serve him? and what are we profited if we pray unto him?
  • 16. Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand. The counsel of the wicked be far from me!
  • 17. How often is the lamp of the wicked put out, and cometh their calamity upon them? Doth he distribute sorrows [to them] in his anger?
  • 18. Do they become as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away?
  • 19. +God layeth up [the punishment of] his iniquity for his children; he rewardeth him, and he shall know [it]:
  • 20. His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the fury of the Almighty.
  • 21. For what pleasure should he have in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off?
  • 22. Can any teach �God knowledge? And he it is that judgeth those that are high.
  • 23. One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet;
  • 24. His sides are full of fat, and the marrow of his bones is moistened;
  • 25. And another dieth in bitterness of soul, and hath not tasted good:
  • 26. Together they lie down in the dust, and the worms cover them.
  • 27. Lo, I know your thoughts, and the devices ye wrongfully imagine against me.
  • 28. For ye say, Where is the house of the noble? and where the tent of the dwellings of the wicked?
  • 29. Have ye not asked the wayfarers? and do ye not regard their tokens:
  • 30. That the wicked is reserved for the day of calamity? They are led forth to the day of wrath.
  • 31. Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him what he hath done?
  • 32. Yet is he carried to the graves, and watch is kept over the tomb.
  • 33. The clods of the valley are sweet unto him; and every man followeth suit after him, as there were innumerable before him.
  • 34. How then comfort ye me in vain? Your answers remain perfidious.