Job 21:7-21

7Why do the wicked live and become old, Yes, become mighty in power?

8Their descendants are established with them in their sight, And their offspring before their eyes.

9Their houses are safe from fear, Neither is the rod of God upon them.

10Their bull breeds without failure; Their cow calves without miscarriage.

11They send forth their little ones like a flock, And their children dance.

12They sing to the tambourine and harp, And rejoice to the sound of the flute.

13They spend their days in wealth, And in a moment go down to the grave.

14Yet they say to God, ‘Depart from us, For we do not desire the knowledge of Your ways.

15Who is the Almighty, that we should serve Him? And what profit do we have if we pray to Him?’

16Indeed their prosperity is not in their hand; The counsel of the wicked is far from me.

17“How often is the lamp of the wicked put out? How often does their destruction come upon them, The sorrows God distributes in His anger?

18They are like straw before the wind, And like chaff that a storm carries away.

19They say, ‘God lays up one’s iniquity for his children’; Let Him recompense him, that he may know it.

20Let his eyes see his destruction, And let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.

21For what does he care about his household after him, When the number of his months is cut in half?