Job 21:7–18

⁷Wherefore do the wicked live, grow old, yea, become 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 shout to the tambour and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the pipe. ¹³They spend their days in prosperity, and in a moment 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 are we profited if we pray unto him? ¹⁶Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand. The counsel of the wicked be far from me!

¹⁷How often is the lamp of the wicked put out, and cometh their calamity upon them? Doth he distribute sorrows to them in his anger? ¹⁸Do they become as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away?