Job 21:1-11 ▼

1 And Job answered and said,

2 Hear attentively my speech, and let this replace your consolations.

3 Suffer me and I will speak; and after I have spoken, mock on!

4 As for me, is my complaint to a man? or wherefore should not my spirit be impatient?

5 Mark me, and be astonished, and lay the hand upon the mouth.

6 Even when I think [thereon], I am affrighted, and trembling taketh hold of my flesh.

7 Wherefore do the wicked live, grow old, yea, become mighty in power?

8 Their seed is established with them in their sight, and their offspring before their eyes.

9 Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of +God upon them.

10 Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf.

11 They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.