Job 21:4-18

American Standard Version

⁴ As for me, is my complaint ^[a]to man?
And why should I not be impatient?
^5 [b]Mark me, and be astonished,
And lay your hand upon your mouth.
⁶ Even when I remember I am troubled,
And horror taketh hold on my flesh.
⁷ Wherefore do the wicked live,
Become old, yea, wax mighty in power?
⁸ Their seed is established with them in their sight,
And their offspring before their eyes.
⁹ Their houses are ^[c]safe from fear,
Neither is the rod of God upon them.
¹⁰ Their bull gendereth, and faileth not;
Their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf.
¹¹ They send forth their little ones like a flock,
And their children dance.
¹² They ^[d]sing to the timbrel and harp,
And rejoice at the sound of the pipe.
¹³ They spend their days in prosperity,
And in a moment they go down to Sheol.
¹⁴ And they say unto God, Depart from us;
For we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.
¹⁵ What is the Almighty, that we should serve him?
And what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?
^16 [e]Lo, their prosperity is not in their hand:
The counsel of the wicked is far from me.