Job 21:1-13 ▼

1 Then Job answered:

2 Pay close attention to  my  words; let this be the consolation you offer.

3 Bear with me while  I  speak; then after I have spoken, you may continue mocking.

4 As for me, is my  complaint  against  a man ? Then why shouldn’t  I be impatient?

5 Look at me and  shudder;  put your hand over  your mouth. 

6 When I think about it, I am terrified and my body trembles  in horror.

7 Why do the wicked continue to live, growing old and becoming powerful ?

8 Their children are established while they  are still alive ,  and their descendants, before  their  eyes.

9 Their homes are secure and free of  fear;  no rod from God strikes them. 

10 Their bulls breed without  fail; their cows calve and  do not  miscarry.

11 They let their  little ones run around  like  lambs; their children skip about,

12 singing to  the tambourine and  lyre and rejoicing at  the sound of the flute. 

13 They spend  their  days in  prosperity  and go down to ^•Sheol in  peace.