Job 21:4-18

Jubilee Bible 2000

⁴ As for me, is my complaint to man? And if so, why should not my spirit be troubled?

⁵ Look upon me and be astonished and lay your hand upon your mouth.

⁶ Even I myself, when I remember, I am afraid, and trembling takes hold on my flesh.

⁷ ¶ Why do the wicked live and become old and even increase in riches?

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

⁹ Their houses are safe from fear; neither is the rod of God upon them.

¹⁰ Their cows conceive, and do not abort; their cows calve and do not cast forth their young.

¹¹ They send forth their little ones like a flock of sheep, and their children dance.

¹² They jump at the sound of the timbrel and harp and rejoice at the sound of the organ.

¹³ They spend their days in pleasure and in a moment go down to Sheol.

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

¹⁵ Who is the Almighty that we should serve him? And what profit should we have if we pray unto him?

¹⁶ Behold that their good is not in their hands; the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

¹⁷ ¶ How often is the lamp of the wicked put out and their destruction comes upon them, and God distributes sorrows upon them in his anger.

¹⁸ They shall be as stubble before the wind and as chaff taken up by the whirlwind.