Job 21:23-34 ▼

23 Such persons will die in their full vigor, completely prosperous and secure.

24 His buckets are filled with milk, his bone marrow is healthy.

25 Others die with a bitter soul, never having tasted the good life.

26 They both lie down in the dust; and worms cover them.|

27 |Look! I know your thoughts, your plans are going to harm me.

28 You ask, 'Where is the noble person's house?' and 'Where are the tents where the wicked live?'

29 Haven't you asked travelers on the highway? Don't you accept their word

30 that the wicked person is spared from times of calamity, that he is rescued on the day of wrath?

31 Who will expose his conduct to his face? Who will repay him for what he has done

32 when he is carried away to the cemetery and guardians are placed to watch his tomb?

33 The runoff from the streams will seem sweet to him; everyone will follow after him; countless crows march ahead of him.

34 How then, can you console me so worthlessly? What is left of your answers is treachery.|