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| [1]Then Job answered and said: |
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| [2]Hear diligently my speech; and let this be your consolations. |
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| [3]Suffer me, that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on. |
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| [4]As for me, is my complaint to man? Or why should I not be impatient? |
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| [5]Turn unto me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth. |
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| [6]Even when I remember I am affrighted, and horror hath taketh hold on my flesh. |
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| [7]Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, wax mighty in power? |
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| [8]Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes. |
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| [9]Their houses are safe, without fear, neither is the rod of God upon them. |
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| [10]Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf. |
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| [11]They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance. |
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| [12]They sing to the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the pipe. |
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| [13]They spend their days prosperity, and peacefully they go down to the grave. |
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| [14]Yet they said unto God: 'Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of Thy ways. |
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| [15]What is the Almighty, that we should serve Him? And what profit should we have, if we pray unto Him?'— |
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| [16]Lo, their prosperity is not in their hand; the counsel of the wicked is far from me. |
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| [17]How oft is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out? that their calamity cometh upon them? that He distributeth pains in His anger? |
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| [18]That they are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm stealeth away? |
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| [19]'God layeth up his iniquity for his children!'—let Him recompense it unto himself, that he may know it. |
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| [20]Let his own eyes see h destruction, and let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty. |
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| [21]For what pleasure hath he in his house after him? seeing the number of his months is determined. |
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| [22]Shall any teach God knowledge? seeing it is He that judgeth those that are high. |
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| [23]One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet; |
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| [24]His pails are full of milk, and the marrow of his bones is moistened. |
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| [25]And another dieth in bitterness of soul, and hath never tasted of good. |
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| [26]They lie down alike in the dust, and the worm covereth them. |
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| [27]Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me. |
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| [28]For ye say: 'Where is the house of the prince? And where is the tent wherein the wicked dwelt?' |
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| [29]Have ye not asked them that go by the way; and will ye misdeem their tokens, |
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| [30]That the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity, that they are led forth to the day of wrath? |
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| [31]But who shall declare his way to his face? And who shall repay him what he hath done? |
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| [32]For he is borne to the grave, and watch is kept over his tomb. |
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| [33]The clods of the valley are sweet unto him, and all men draw after him, as there were innumerable before him. |
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| [34]How then comfort ye me in vain? And as for your answers, there remaineth only faithlessness? |
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