Job 21:1-11 ▼

1 Then Job responded by saying:

2 I beseech you to hear my words and to do penance.

3 Permit me, and I will speak, and afterwards, if you see fit, you can laugh at my words.

4 Is my dispute against man, so that I would have no reason to be discouraged?

5 Listen to me and be astonished, and place a finger over your mouth.

6 As for me, when I think it over, I am afraid, and trembling convulses my body.

7 Why then do the impious live, having been lifted up and strengthened with riches?

8 They see their offspring continue before them: a commotion of close relatives and of children’s children in their sight.

9 Their houses have been secure and peaceable, and there is no staff of God over them.

10 Their cattle have conceived and have not miscarried; their cow has given birth and is not deprived of her newborn.

11 Their little ones go out like a flock, and their children jump around playfully.