Job 21:7-21

7“Why do the wicked prosper, growing old and powerful?

8They live to see their children grow up and settle down, and they enjoy their grandchildren.

9Their homes are safe from every fear, and God does not punish them.

10Their bulls never fail to breed. Their cows bear calves and never miscarry.

11They let their children frisk about like lambs. Their little ones skip and dance.

12They sing with tambourine and harp. They celebrate to the sound of the flute.

13They spend their days in prosperity, then go down to the grave in peace.

14And yet they say to God, ‘Go away. We want no part of you and your ways.

15Who is the Almighty, and why should we obey him? What good will it do us to pray?’

16(They think their prosperity is of their own doing, but I will have nothing to do with that kind of thinking.)

17“Yet the light of the wicked never seems to be extinguished. Do they ever have trouble? Does God distribute sorrows to them in anger?

18Are they driven before the wind like straw? Are they carried away by the storm like chaff? Not at all!

19“‘Well,’ you say, ‘at least God will punish their children!’ But I say he should punish the ones who sin, so that they understand his judgment.

20Let them see their destruction with their own eyes. Let them drink deeply of the anger of the Almighty.

21For they will not care what happens to their family after they are dead.