Job: God Will Punish the Wicked

1And Job will answer and say,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

16Behold, their good not in the hand: the counsel of the unjust was far from me.

17How often the light of the unjust shall be extinguished, and their destruction will come upon them. He will distribute pains in his anger.

18They shall be as straw before the wind, and as chaff the storm stole it away.

19God will lay up his iniquity for his sons: he will requite to him and be shall know.

20His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink from the wrath of the Almighty.

21For what his delight in his house after him, and the number of? his months were divided out?

22Shall he teach knowledge to God? and he will judge those lifted up.

23This shall die in the strength of his fulness, altogether tranquil and at rest.

24His sides were filled with fat, and the marrow of his bones will, be moistened.

25And this will die in the soul of bitterness, and will not eat in good.

26They will lie down together upon the dust, and the worm shall cover over them.

27Behold, I knew your purposes, and the devices ye will shake off against me.

28For ye will say, Where the house of the noble one; and where the tent of the dwellings of the unjust?

29Did ye not ask them passing over the way? and shall ye not know their signs?

30For the evil one will be spared for the day of destruction; they shalt be led away to the day of wraths.

31Who shall announce his way upon his face? and who shall requite to him that he did?

32And he shall be led away to the graves, and shall watch over the tomb.

33And the clods of the valley were sweet to him, and every man shall draw after him, and before him no number.

34And how will ye comfort me in vain, and your answers remained treachery?