Job 21:4-18

Legacy Standard Bible

⁴ As for me, is ^(A)my musing ^[a]to man?
And ^(B)why should ^[b]I not be impatient?
⁵ Look at me, and be appalled,
And ^(C)put your hand over your mouth.
⁶ Even when I remember, I am dismayed,
And ^(D)horror seizes my flesh.
⁷ Why ^(E)do the wicked still live,
Continue on, also become very ^(F)powerful?
⁸ Their ^(G)seed is established with them in their presence,
And their offspring before their eyes,
⁹ Their houses ^(H)are safe from dread,
And the rod of God is not on them.
¹⁰ His ox mates and does not fail;
His cow calves and does not miscarry.
¹¹ They send forth their little ones like the flock,
And their children skip about.
¹² They lift up the tambourine and harp
And are glad at the sound of the pipe.
¹³ They ^(I)spend their days in prosperity,
And ^[c]suddenly they go down to Sheol.
¹⁴ They say to God, ‘^(J)Depart from us!
We do not even desire the knowledge of Your ways.
^15 [d]Who is ^[e]the Almighty, that we should serve Him,
And ^(K)what would we profit if we entreat Him?’
¹⁶ Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand;
The ^(L)counsel of the wicked is far from me.