Job 21:7-15

7“Why do the wicked go on living, grow old, even increase in power?

8Their children are firmly established in their presence, their offspring before their eyes.

9Their houses are safe and without fear; and no rod of punishment from God is upon them.

10Their bulls breed without fail; their cows calve and do not miscarry.

11They allow their children to run like a flock; their little ones dance about.

12They sing to the accompaniment of tambourine and harp, and make merry to the sound of the flute.

13They live out their years in prosperity and go down to the grave in peace.

14So they say to God, ‘Turn away from us! We do not want to know your ways.

15Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What would we gain if we were to pray to him?’