Job 21

¹Bvt Iob answered, and sayd,

²Heare diligently my wordes, and this shalbe in stead of your consolations.

³Suffer mee, that I may speake, and when I haue spoken, mocke on.

⁴Doe I direct my talke to man? If it were so, how should not my spirit be troubled?

⁵Marke mee, and be abashed, and lay your hand vpon your mouth.

⁶Euen when I remember, I am afrayde, and feare taketh hold on my flesh.

⁷Wherefore do the wicked liue, and waxe olde, and grow in wealth?

⁸Their seede is established in their sight with them, and their generation before their eyes.

⁹Their houses are peaceable without feare, and the rod of God is not vpon them.

¹⁰Their bullocke gendreth, and fayleth not: their cow calueth, and casteth not her calfe.

¹¹They send forth their children like sheepe, and their sonnes dance.

¹²They take the tabret and harpe, and reioyce in the sound of the organs.

¹³They spend their dayes in wealth, and suddenly they go downe to the graue.

¹⁴They say also vnto God, Depart from vs: for we desire not the knowledge of thy wayes.

¹⁵Who is the Almightie, that we should serue him? and what profit should we haue, if we should pray vnto him?

¹⁶Lo, their wealth is not in their hand: therfore let the counsell of the wicked bee farre from me.