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