Job 21:1-15 ▼

1 And Job will answer and say,

2 Hearing, hear ye my speech, and this shall be your consolations.

3 Suffer me and I will speak; and after my word ye will mock.

4 I, is my complaint to man? and then wherefore shall not my spirit be shortened?

5 Look to me and be astonished, and put the hand upon the mouth.

6 And when I remembered and trembled, and horror took hold of my flesh.

7 Wherefore shall the unjust live? They grew old, also they were strong in power.

8 Their seed was established before their face with them, and their offspring before their eyes.

9 Their houses peace from fear, and the rod of God not upon them.

10 His ox passed over and will not be cast away: his heifer will escape and will not be barren.

11 They will send forth their children as a flock, and their children will leap.

12 They will lift up with the drum and harp, and they will rejoice at the voice of the pipe.

13 Their days glided on in good, and in a moment they will lay hold of hades.

14 And they will say to God, Depart from us; and we desired not the knowledge of thy ways.

15 What the Almighty that we shall serve him? and what shall we be profited if we shall supplicate to him?