18:021:001 But Job answered and said,
18:021:002 Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations.
18:021:003 Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock
on.
18:021:004 As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why
should not my spirit be troubled?
18:021:005 Mark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth.
18:021:006 Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on
my flesh.
18:021:007 Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in
power?
18:021:008 Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their
offspring before their eyes.
18:021:009 Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God
upon them.
18:021:010 Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and
casteth not her calf.
18:021:011 They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their
children dance.
18:021:012 They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of
the organ.
18:021:013 They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to
the grave.
18:021:014 Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not
the knowledge of thy ways.
18:021:015 What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what
profit should we have, if we pray unto him?
18:021:016 Lo, their good is not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked
is far from me.
18:021:017 How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and how oft
cometh their destruction upon them! God distributeth sorrows
in his anger.
18:021:018 They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the
storm carrieth away.
18:021:019 God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him,
and he shall know it.
18:021:020 His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the
wrath of the Almighty.
18:021:021 For what pleasure hath he in his house after him, when the
number of his months is cut off in the midst?
18:021:022 Shall any teach God knowledge? seeing he judgeth those that
are high.
18:021:023 One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and
quiet.
18:021:024 His breasts are full of milk, and his bones are moistened with
marrow.
18:021:025 And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never
eateth with pleasure.
18:021:026 They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall
cover them.
18:021:027 Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye
wrongfully imagine against me.
18:021:028 For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? and where are
the dwelling places of the wicked?
18:021:029 Have ye not asked them that go by the way? and do ye not know
their tokens,
18:021:030 That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they
shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.
18:021:031 Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him
what he hath done?
18:021:032 Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the
tomb.
18:021:033 The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, and every man
shall draw after him, as there are innumerable before him.
18:021:034 How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there
remaineth falsehood?