Job 21:1-11 ▼

1 In response, Job said:

2 |Listen carefully to my words; let this encourage all of you.

3 Bear with me and let me speak! Then, after I've spoken, you'll be free to mock me.

4 After all, isn't my complaint against a human being? If so, why shouldn't I be impatient?

5 Look at me, be appalled, and then shut up!

6 When I think about this, I'm petrified with terror and my body shudders uncontrollably.|

7 |Why do the wicked live to reach old age and increase in power and wealth, too?

8 Their children grow up while they're alive, and they live to see their grandchildren.

9 Their houses are safe from fear, and God's chastisement never visits them.

10 Their bull breeds without fail, and their cows calve without miscarriages.

11 They release their children to play like sheep; their young ones dance about,