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- 1But Job answered and said,
- 2Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations.
- 3Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on.
- 4As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled?
- 5Mark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth.
- 6Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh.
- 7Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?
- 8Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes.
- 9Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them.
- 10Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf.
- 11They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.
- 12They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ.
- 13They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.
- 14Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.
- 15What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?
- 16Lo, their good is not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
- 17How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and how oft cometh their destruction upon them! God distributeth sorrows in his anger.
- 18They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.
- 19God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know it.
- 20His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
- 21For what pleasure hath he in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off in the midst?
- 22Shall any teach God knowledge? seeing he judgeth those that are high.
- 23One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.
- 24His breasts are full of milk, and his bones are moistened with marrow.
- 25And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never eateth with pleasure.
- 26They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them.
- 27Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me.
- 28For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked?
- 29Have ye not asked them that go by the way? and do ye not know their tokens,
- 30That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.
- 31Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him what he hath done?
- 32Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb.
- 33The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, and every man shall draw after him, as there are innumerable before him.
- 34How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood?
