Job 21

¹And Job answereth and saith: —

²Hear ye diligently my word, And this is your consolation.

³Bear with me, and I speak, And after my speaking — ye may deride.

⁴I — to man [is] my complaint? and if [so], wherefore May not my temper become short?

⁵Turn unto me, and be astonished, And put hand to mouth.

⁶Yea, if I have remembered, then I have been troubled. And my flesh hath taken fright.

⁷Wherefore do the wicked live? They have become old, Yea, they have been mighty in wealth.

⁸Their seed is established, Before their face with them, And their offspring before their eyes.

⁹Their houses [are] peace without fear, Nor [is] a rod of God upon them.

¹⁰His bullock hath eaten corn, and doth not loath. His cow bringeth forth safely, And doth not miscarry.

¹¹They send forth as a flock their sucklings, And their children skip,

¹²They lift [themselves] up at timbrel and harp, And rejoice at the sound of an organ.

¹³They wear out in good their days, And in a moment [to] Sheol go down.

¹⁴And they say to God, 'Turn aside from us, And the knowledge of Thy ways We have not desired.

¹⁵What [is] the Mighty One that we serve Him? And what do we profit when we meet with Him?'