Job 21:22-34

English Standard Version

²²^(A)Will any teach God knowledge,
    seeing that he ^(B)judges those who are on high?
²³One dies in his full vigor,
    being wholly at ease and secure,
²⁴his pails^[a] full of milk
    and ^(C)the marrow of his bones moist.
²⁵Another dies in ^(D)bitterness of soul,
    never having tasted of prosperity.
²⁶They ^(E)lie down alike in the dust,
    and ^(F)the worms cover them.

²⁷“Behold, I know your thoughts
    and your schemes to wrong me.
²⁸For you say, ^(G)‘Where is the house of the prince?
    Where is ^(H)the tent in which the wicked lived?’
²⁹Have you not asked those who travel the roads,
    and do you not accept their testimony
³⁰that ^(I)the evil man is spared in the day of calamity,
    that he is rescued in the day of wrath?
³¹Who declares his way ^(J)to his face,
    and who ^(K)repays him for what he has done?
³²When he is ^(L)carried to the grave,
    watch is kept over his tomb.
³³^(M)The clods of the valley are sweet to him;
    ^(N)all mankind follows after him,
    and those who go before him are innumerable.
³⁴How then will you comfort me with empty nothings?
    There is nothing left of your answers but falsehood.”