Job 21:7–18

⁷Why then do the wicked live, are they advanced, and strengthened with riches?

⁸Their seed continueth before them, a multitude of kinsmen, and of children’s children in their sight.

⁹Their houses are secure and peaceable, and the rod of God is not upon them.

¹⁰Their cattle have conceived, and failed not: their cow has calved, and is not deprived of her fruit.

¹¹Their little ones go out like a flock, and their children dance and play.

¹²They take the timbrel, and the harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ.

¹³They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment they go down to hell.

¹⁴Who have said to God: Depart from us, we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.

¹⁵Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what doth it profit us if we pray to him?

¹⁶Yet because their good things are not in their hand, may the counsel of the wicked be far from me.

¹⁷How often shall the lamp of the wicked be put out, and a deluge come upon them, and he shall distribute the sorrows of his wrath?

¹⁸They shall be as chaff before the face of the wind, and as ashes which the whirlwind scattereth.