Job 21:1-16

1Then Job 1answered,2“Listen carefully to my speech, And let this be your way of consolation.3Bear with me that I may speak; Then after I have spoken, you may 2mock.4As for me, is 3my complaint 4to man? And 5why should 6I not be impatient?5Look at me, and be astonished, And 7put your hand over your mouth.6Even when I remember, I am disturbed, And 8horror takes hold of my flesh.7Why 9do the wicked still live, Continue on, also become very 10powerful?8Their 1112descendants are established with them in their sight, And their offspring before their eyes,9Their houses 13are safe from fear, And the rod of God is not on them.10His ox mates 14without fail; His cow calves and does not abort.11They send forth their little ones like the flock, And their children skip about.12They 15sing to the timbrel and harp And rejoice at the sound of the flute.13They 16spend their days in prosperity, And 17suddenly they go down to 18Sheol.14They say to God, ‘19Depart from us! We do not even desire the knowledge of Your ways.1520Who is 21the Almighty, that we should serve Him, And 22what would we gain if we entreat Him?’16Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand; The 23counsel of the wicked is far from me.