Job 21

1 But Job answered and said, 2 Hear you⌃, hear you⌃ my words, that I may not have this consolation from you. 3 Raise me, and I will speak; then you⌃ shall not laugh me to scorn. 4 What! is my reproof of man? and why should I not be angry? 5 Look upon me, and wonder, laying your hand upon your cheek. 6 For even when I remember, I am alarmed, and pains seize my flesh. 7 Wherefore do the ungodly live, and grow old even in wealth? 8 Their seed is according totheir desire, and their children are intheir sight. 9 Their houses are prosperous, neitherhave they any wherecause for fear, neither is there a scourge from the Lord upon them. 10 Their cow does not cast her calf, and theirbeast with young is safe, and does not miscarry. 11 And they remain as an unfailing flock, and their children play beforethem, taking up the lute and harp; 12 and they rejoice at the voice of a song. 13 And they spend their days in wealth, and fall asleep in the rest of the grave. 14 Yetsuch a man says to the Lord, Depart from me; I desire not to know your ways. 15 What is the Mighty One, that we should serve him? and what profit is there that we shouldapproach him? 16 For their good things were intheir hands, but he regards not the works of the ungodly. 17 Nevertheless, the lamp of the ungodly also shall be put out, and destruction shall comeupon them, and pangs of vengeance shall seize them. 18 And they shall be as chaff before the wind, or as dust which the storm has taken up. 19 Let his substance failto supply his children:God shall recompense him, and he shall know it. 20 Let his eyes see his own destruction, and let him not be saved by the Lord. 21 For his desire is in his house with him, and the number of his months has been suddenlycut off. 22 Is it not the Lord who teaches understanding and knowledge? and does not he judge murders? 23 One shall die in his perfect strength, and wholly at ease and prosperous; 24 and his inwards are full of fat, and his marrow is diffusedthroughout him. 25 And another dies in bitterness of soul, not eating any good thing. 26 But they lie down in the earth together, and corruption covers them. 27 So I know you, that you⌃ presumptuously attack me: 28 so that you⌃ will say, Where is the house of the prince? and where is the covering ofthe tabernacles of the ungodly? 29 Ask those that go by the way, and do not disown their tokens. 30 For the wicked hastens to the day of destruction: they shall be led away for the dayof his vengeance. 31 Who will tell him his way to his face, whereas he has doneit? who shall recompense him? 32 And he has been led away to the tombs, and he has watched over the heaps. 33 The stones of the valley have been sweet to him, and every man shall depart after him,andthere are innumerableones before him. 34 How then do you⌃ comfort me in vain? whereas I have no rest from your molestation.