Job 21:7–18

⁷Wherefore do the wicked live? They have become old, Yea, they have been mighty in wealth. ⁸Their seed is established, Before their face with them, And their offspring before their eyes. ⁹Their houses are peace without fear, Nor is a rod of God upon them. ¹⁰His bullock hath eaten corn, and doth not loath. His cow bringeth forth safely, And doth not miscarry. ¹¹They send forth as a flock their sucklings, And their children skip, ¹²They lift themselves up at timbrel and harp, And rejoice at the sound of an organ. ¹³They wear out in good their days, And in a moment to Sheol go down. ¹⁴And they say to God, ‘Turn aside from us, And the knowledge of Thy ways We have not desired. ¹⁵What is the Mighty One that we serve Him? And what do we profit when we meet with Him?’ ¹⁶Lo, not in their hand is their good, (The counsel of the wicked Hath been far from me.)

¹⁷How oft is the lamp of the wicked extinguished, And come on them doth their calamity? Pangs He apportioneth in His anger. ¹⁸They are as straw before wind, And as chaff a hurricane hath stolen away,