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| [1]THEN Job answered and said, |
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| [2]Listen diligently to my speech, and let this be your consolation. |
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| [3]Suffer me that I may speak; and after I have spoken, then mock on. |
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| [4]I will utter my complaint to men, why my spirit is distressed. |
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| [5]Return to me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth. |
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| [6]Even when I think of it, I tremble, and terror takes hold of my flesh |
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| [7]Why do the ungodly live, and why are the mighty in power full of years? |
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| [8]Their descendants are established in their sight with them, and their children before their eyes. |
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| [9]Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them. |
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| [10]Their bull breeds, and fails not; their cow calves, and does not cast her calf. |
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| [11]Their children stand firm like a flock, and their boys dance. |
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| [12]They take the timbrels and harps, and rejoice at the sound of singing. |
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| [13]They spend their days in prosperity, and then suddenly go down to Sheol. |
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| [14]They say to God, Depart from us; for we do not desire to know thy ways. |
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| [15]Moreover, they say, Who is God, that we should serve him? And what would we gain, that we should pray to him? |
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| [16]Lo, they have no power over their prosperity; the counsel of the ungodly is far from me |
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| [17]How often is it that the wicked are left without an heir! how often their destruction comes upon them! God distributes sorrows in his anger. |
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| [18]They are like straw before the wind, and like chaff that the storm carries away. |
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| [19]God reserves man's iniquity for his children; he pays it back to him, and he shall know it. |
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| [20]His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty. |
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| [21]For what pleasure has he in his house after him, when a portion of his years shall be reserved for his posterity? |
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| [22]Shall any teach God knowledge, seeing it is he who judges the proud? |
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| [23]One dies in his full strength, sound of body, being wholly confident, and at ease. |
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| [24]His body is full of fat, and his bones are filled with marrow. |
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| [25]And another dies in the bitterness of his soul, never having tasted prosperity. |
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| [26]They shall lie down in the dust, and the worms shall cover them |
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| [27]Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which you wrongfully imagine against me. |
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| [28]For you say. Where is the house of the righteous? And where is the place in which the wicked has pitched his tent? |
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| [29]Have you not asked those who pass by the way? And do you not recognize their tokens? |
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| [30]For the evil man is reserved for the day of destruction, he shall be remembered in the day of wrath. |
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| [31]Who can show him the way? And who shall repay him for what he has done? |
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| [32]Yet he shall be brought to the grave, he is reserved for misfortune. |
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| [33]The depths of the valley shall swallow him, and many shall be drawn in after him, even as there are innumerable ahead of him. |
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| [34]How then can you comfort me in vain, seeing that your abominable answers are multiplied before me |
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