Job’s Reply
21:1  But Job answered and said,
21:2  Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations.
21:3  Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on.
21:4  As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled?
21:5  Mark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth.
21:6  Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh.
21:7  Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?
21:8  Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes.
21:9  Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them.
21:10  Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf.
21:11  They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.
21:12  They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ.
21:13  They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.
21:14  Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.
21:15  What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?
21:16  Lo, their good is not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
21:17  How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and how oft cometh their destruction upon them! God distributeth sorrows in his anger.
21:18  They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.
21:19  God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know it.
21:20  His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
21:21  For what pleasure hath he in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off in the midst?
21:22  Shall any teach God knowledge? seeing he judgeth those that are high.
21:23  One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.
21:24  His breasts are full of milk, and his bones are moistened with marrow.
21:25  And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never eateth with pleasure.
21:26  They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them.
21:27  Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me.
21:28  For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked?
21:29  Have ye not asked them that go by the way? and do ye not know their tokens,
21:30  That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.
21:31  Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him what he hath done?
21:32  Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb.
21:33  The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, and every man shall draw after him, as there are innumerable before him.
21:34  How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood?