Job21:1 Then Job answered:
Job21:2 "Listen carefully to my words, and let this be your consolation.
Job21:3 Bear with me, and I will speak; then after I have spoken, mock on.
Job21:4 As for me, is my complaint addressed to mortals? Why should I not be impatient?
Job21:5 Look at me, and be appalled, and lay your hand upon your mouth.
Job21:6 When I think of it I am dismayed, and shuddering seizes my flesh.
Job21:7 Why do the wicked live on, reach old age, and grow mighty in power?
Job21:8 Their children are established in their presence, and their offspring before their eyes.
Job21:9 Their houses are safe from fear, and no rod of God is upon them.
Job21:10 Their bull breeds without fail; their cow calves and never miscarries.
Job21:11 They send out their little ones like a flock, and their children dance around.
Job21:12 They sing to the tambourine and the lyre, and rejoice to the sound of the pipe.
Job21:13 They spend their days in prosperity, and in peace they go down to Sheol.
Job21:14 They say to God, 'Leave us alone! We do not desire to know your ways.
Job21:15 What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? And what profit do we get if we pray to him?'
Job21:16 Is not their prosperity indeed their own achievement? The plans of the wicked are repugnant to me.
Job21:17 "How often is the lamp of the wicked put out? How often does calamity come upon them? How often does God distribute pains in his anger?
Job21:18 How often are they like straw before the wind, and like chaff that the storm carries away?
Job21:19 You say, 'God stores up their iniquity for their children.' Let it be paid back to them, so that they may know it.
Job21:20 Let their own eyes see their destruction, and let them drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
Job21:21 For what do they care for their household after them, when the number of their months is cut off?
Job21:22 Will any teach God knowledge, seeing that he judges those that are on high?
Job21:23 One dies in full prosperity, being wholly at ease and secure,
Job21:24 his loins full of milk and the marrow of his bones moist.
Job21:25 Another dies in bitterness of soul, never having tasted of good.
Job21:26 They lie down alike in the dust, and the worms cover them.
Job21:27 "Oh, I know your thoughts, and your schemes to wrong me.
Job21:28 For you say, 'Where is the house of the prince? Where is the tent in which the wicked lived?'
Job21:29 Have you not asked those who travel the roads, and do you not accept their testimony,
Job21:30 that the wicked are spared in the day of calamity, and are rescued in the day of wrath?
Job21:31 Who declares their way to their face, and who repays them for what they have done?
Job21:32 When they are carried to the grave, a watch is kept over their tomb.
Job21:33 The clods of the valley are sweet to them; everyone will follow after, and those who went before are innumerable.
Job21:34 How then will you comfort me with empty nothings? There is nothing left of your answers but falsehood."