Job 21:7-16

English Standard Version

^7 (A)Why do the wicked live,
    reach old age, and grow mighty in power?
⁸ Their ^(B)offspring are established in their presence,
    and their descendants before their eyes.
⁹ Their houses are ^(C)safe from fear,
    and ^(D)no rod of God is upon them.
¹⁰ Their bull breeds without fail;
    their cow calves and ^(E)does not miscarry.
¹¹ They send out their ^(F)little boys like a flock,
    and their children dance.
¹² They sing to ^(G)the tambourine and ^(H)the lyre
    and rejoice to the sound of ^(I)the pipe.
¹³ They ^(J)spend their days in prosperity,
    and in ^(K)peace they go down to ^(L)Sheol.
¹⁴ They say to God, ^(M)‘Depart from us!
    We do not desire the knowledge of your ways.
^15 (N)What is the Almighty, that we should serve him?
    And what ^(O)profit do we get if we pray to him?’
¹⁶ Behold, is not their prosperity in their hand?
    ^(P)The counsel of the wicked is far from me.