Job 21:7–18

⁷Wherefore do the wicked live,

Become old, yea, wax mighty in power?

⁸Their seed is 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 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 sing to the timbrel and harp,

And rejoice at the sound of the pipe.

¹³They spend their days in prosperity,

And in a moment they go down to Sheol.

¹⁴And 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 prosperity is not in their hand:

The counsel of the wicked is far from me.

¹⁷How oft is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out?

That their calamity cometh upon them?

That God distributeth sorrows in his anger?

¹⁸That they are as stubble before the wind,

And as chaff that the storm carrieth away?