Job21

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(Job 21:1) But Job answered and said,
(Job 21:2) Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations.
(Job 21:3) Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on.
(Job 21:4) As for me, {is} my complaint to man? and if {it were so}, why should not my spirit be troubled?
(Job 21:5) Mark me, and be astonished, and lay {your} hand upon {your} mouth.
(Job 21:6) Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh.
(Job 21:7) Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?
(Job 21:8) Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes.
(Job 21:9) Their houses {are} safe from fear, neither {is} the rod of God upon them.
(Job 21:10) Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf.
(Job 21:11) They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.
(Job 21:12) They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ.
(Job 21:13) They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.
(Job 21:14) Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.
(Job 21:15) What {is} the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?
(Job 21:16) Lo, their good {is} not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
(Job 21:17) How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and {how oft} cometh their destruction upon them! {God} distributeth sorrows in his anger.
(Job 21:18) They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.
(Job 21:19) God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know {it}.
(Job 21:20) His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the almighty.
(Job 21:21) For what pleasure {hath} he in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off in the midst?
(Job 21:22) Shall {any} teach God knowledge? seeing he judgeth those that are high.
(Job 21:23) One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.
(Job 21:24) His breasts are full of milk, and his bones are moistened with marrow.
(Job 21:25) And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never eateth with pleasure.
(Job 21:26) They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them.
(Job 21:27) Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices {which} ye wrongfully imagine against me.
(Job 21:28) For ye say, Where {is} the house of the prince? and where {are} the dwelling places of the wicked?
(Job 21:29) Have ye not asked them that go by the way? and do ye not know their tokens,
(Job 21:30) That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.
(Job 21:31) Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him {what} he hath done?
(Job 21:32) Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb.
(Job 21:33) The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, and every man shall draw after him, as {there are} innumerable before him.
(Job 21:34) How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood?
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