21:1 But Job answered and said:

21:2 Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations:

21:3 Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on:

21:4 As for me, [is] my complaint to man? and if [it were so], why should not my spirit be troubled:

21:5 Mark me, and be astonished, and lay [your] hand upon [your] mouth:

21:6 Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh:

21:7 Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power:

21:8 Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes:

21:9 Their houses [are] safe from fear, neither [is] the rod of God upon them:

21:10 Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf:

21:11 They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance:

21:12 They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ:

21:13 They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave:

21:14 Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways:

21:15 What [is] the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him:

21:16 Lo, their good [is] not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me:

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:

21:18 They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away:

21:19 God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know:

21:20 His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty:

21:21 For what pleasure [hath] he in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off in the midst:

21:22 Shall [any] teach God knowledge? seeing he judgeth those that are high:

21:23 One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet:

21:24 His breasts are full of milk, and his bones are moistened with marrow:

21:25 And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never eateth with pleasure:

21:26 They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them:

21:27 Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices [which] ye wrongfully imagine against me:

21:28 For ye say, Where [is] the house of the prince? and where [are] the dwelling places of the wicked:

21:29 Have ye not asked them that go by the way? and do ye not know their tokens:

21:30 That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath:

21:31 Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him [what] he hath done:

21:32 Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb:

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:

21:34 How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood: