Job 21:22-33

22Can anyone teach God knowledge, since he judges those that are on high?

23“One man dies in his full vigor, completely secure and prosperous,

24his body well nourished, and the marrow of his bones moist.

25And another man dies in bitterness of soul, never having tasted anything good.

26Together they lie down in the dust, and worms cover over them both.

27“Yes, I know what you are thinking, the schemes by which you would wrong me.

28For you say, ‘Where now is the nobleman’s house, and where are the tents in which the wicked lived?’

29Have you never questioned those who travel the roads? Do you not recognize their accounts –

30that the evil man is spared from the day of his misfortune, that he is delivered from the day of God’s wrath?

31No one denounces his conduct to his face; no one repays him for what he has done.

32And when he is carried to the tombs, and watch is kept over the funeral mound,

33The clods of the torrent valley are sweet to him; behind him everybody follows in procession, and before him goes a countless throng.