1 Then Job answered, WEB — Job 21:1
2 “Listen diligently to my speech. Let this be your consolation. WEB — Job 21:2
3 Allow me, and I also will speak; After I have spoken, mock on. WEB — Job 21:3
4 As for me, is my complaint to man? Why shouldn't I be impatient? WEB — Job 21:4
5 Look at me, and be astonished. Lay your hand on your mouth. WEB — Job 21:5
6 When I remember, I am troubled. Horror takes hold of my flesh. WEB — Job 21:6
7 “Why do the wicked live, Become old, yes, and grow mighty in power? WEB — Job 21:7
8 Their child is established with them in their sight, Their offspring before their eyes. WEB — Job 21:8
9 Their houses are safe from fear, Neither is the rod of God upon them. WEB — Job 21:9
10 Their bulls breed without fail. Their cows calve, and don't miscarry. WEB — Job 21:10
11 They send forth their little ones like a flock. Their children dance. WEB — Job 21:11
12 They sing to the tambourine and harp, And rejoice at the sound of the pipe. WEB — Job 21:12
13 They spend their days in prosperity. In an instant they go down to Sheol. WEB — Job 21:13
14 They tell God, ‘Depart from us, For we don't want to know about your ways. WEB — Job 21:14
15 What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What profit should we have, if we pray to him?’ WEB — Job 21:15
16 Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand: The counsel of the wicked is far from me. WEB — Job 21:16
17 “How often is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out? That their calamity comes on them? That God distributes sorrows in his anger? WEB — Job 21:17
18 That they are as stubble before the wind, As chaff that the storm carries away? WEB — Job 21:18
19 You say, ‘God lays up his iniquity for his children.’ Let him recompense it to himself, that he may know it. WEB — Job 21:19
20 Let his own eyes see his destruction. Let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty. WEB — Job 21:20
21 For what does he care for his house after him, When the number of his months is cut off? WEB — Job 21:21
22 “Shall any teach God knowledge, Seeing he judges those who are high? WEB — Job 21:22
23 One dies in his full strength, Being wholly at ease and quiet. WEB — Job 21:23
24 His pails are full of milk. The marrow of his bones is moistened. WEB — Job 21:24
25 Another dies in bitterness of soul, And never tastes of good. WEB — Job 21:25
26 They lie down alike in the dust, The worm covers them. WEB — Job 21:26
27 “Behold, I know your thoughts, The devices with which you would wrong me. WEB — Job 21:27
28 For you say, ‘Where is the house of the prince? Where is the tent in which the wicked lived?’ WEB — Job 21:28
29 Haven't you asked wayfaring men? Don't you know their evidences, WEB — Job 21:29
30 That the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity? That they are led forth to the day of wrath? WEB — Job 21:30
31 Who shall declare his way to his face? Who shall repay him what he has done? WEB — Job 21:31
32 Yet shall he be borne to the grave, Men shall keep watch over the tomb. WEB — Job 21:32
33 The clods of the valley shall be sweet to him. All men shall draw after him, As there were innumerable before him. WEB — Job 21:33
34 So how can you comfort me with nonsense, Seeing that in your answers there remains only falsehood?” WEB — Job 21:34