Job 21:23-34 ▼

23 One dies in full prosperity, being wholly at ease and secure,

24 his loins full of milk and the marrow of his bones moist.

25 Another dies in bitterness of soul, never having tasted of good.

26 They lie down alike in the dust, and the worms cover them.

27 “Oh, I know your thoughts, and your schemes to wrong me.

28 For you say, ‘Where is the house of the prince? Where is the tent in which the wicked lived?’

29 Have you not asked those who travel the roads, and do you not accept their testimony,

30 that the wicked are spared in the day of calamity, and are rescued in the day of wrath?

31 Who declares their way to their face, and who repays them for what they have done?

32 When they are carried to the grave, a watch is kept over their tomb.

33 The clods of the valley are sweet to them; everyone will follow after, and those who went before are innumerable.

34 How then will you comfort me with empty nothings? There is nothing left of your answers but falsehood.”