✧But 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?