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[1]But Job answered and said,
[2]Hear ye, hear ye my words, that I may not have this consolation from you.
[3]Raise me, and I will speak; then ye 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 to their desire, and their children are in their sight.
[9]Their houses are prosperous, neither have they any where cause for fear, neither is there a scourge from the Lord upon them.
[10]Their cow does not cast her calf, and their beast with young is safe, and does not miscarry.
[11]And they remain as an unfailing flock, and their children play before them, taking up the psaltery 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]Yet such a man says to the Lord, Depart from me; I desire not to know thy ways.
[15]What is the Mighty One, that we should serve him? and what profit is there that we should approach him?
[16]For their good things were in their 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 come upon 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 fail to 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 suddenly cut 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 diffused throughout 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 ye presumptuously attack me:
[28]so that ye will say, Where is the house of the prince? and where is the covering of the 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 day of his vengeance.
[31]Who will tell him his way to his face, whereas he has done it? 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, and there are innumerable ones before him.
[34]How then do ye comfort me in vain? whereas I have no rest from your molestation.
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