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 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: Why do the wicked live, become old, and, 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 their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave. 14: Therefore they say to God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways. 15: What [is] the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray to him? 16: Lo, their good [is] not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me. 17: How oft is the candle of the wicked put out? and [how oft] cometh their destruction upon them? [God] distributeth sorrows in his anger. 18: They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away. 19: God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know [it]. 20: His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty. 21: For what pleasure [hath] he in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off in the midst? 22: Shall [any] teach God knowledge? seeing he judgeth those that are high. 23: One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet. 24: His breasts are full of milk, and his bones are moistened with marrow. 25: And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never eateth with pleasure. 26: They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them. 27: Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices [which] ye wrongfully imagine against me. 28: For ye say, Where [is] the house of the prince? and where [are] the dwelling places of the wicked? 29: Have ye not asked them that go by the way? and do ye not know their tokens, 30: That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they will be brought forth to the day of wrath. 31: Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him [what] he hath done? 32: Yet he shall be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb. 33: The clods of the valley will be sweet to him, and every man will draw after him, as [there are] innumerable before him. 34: How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood?
