Job 21:1-13 ▼

1 But Job answered and said,

2 Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations.

3 Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on.

4 As for me, [is] my complaint to man? and if [it were so], why should not my spirit be troubled?

5 Mark me, and be astonished, and lay [your] hand upon [your] mouth.

6 Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh.

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

8 Their seed is established in their sight with them, 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.

12 They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ.

13 They spend {08675;01086:08762} their days in wealth, and in a moment go down {08676;05181:08799} to the grave.