21Job 21

1Then Job answered, and said:Select Job 21:1

2Hear, I beseech you, my words, and do penance.Select Job 21:2

3Suffer me, and I will speak, and after, if you please, laugh at my words.Select Job 21:3

4Is my debate against man, that I should not have just reason to be troubled?Select Job 21:4

5Hearken to me and be astonished, and lay your finger on your mouth.Select Job 21:5

6As for me, when I remember, I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh.Select Job 21:6

7Why then do the wicked live, are they advanced, and strengthened with riches?Select Job 21:7

8Their seed continueth before them, a multitude of kinsmen, and of children's children in their sight.Select Job 21:8

9Their houses are secure and peaceable, and the rod of God is not upon them.Select Job 21:9

10Their cattle have conceived, and failed not: their cow has calved, and is not deprived of her fruit.Select Job 21:10

11Their little ones go out like a flock, and their children dance and play.Select Job 21:11

12They take the timbrel, and the harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ.Select Job 21:12

13They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment they go down to hell.Select Job 21:13

14Who have said to God: Depart from us, we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.Select Job 21:14

15Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what doth it profit us if we pray to him?Select Job 21:15

16Yet because their good things are not in their hand, may the counsel of the wicked be far from me.Select Job 21:16

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?Select Job 21:17

18They shall be as chaff before the face of the wind, and as ashes which the whirlwind scattereth.Select Job 21:18

19God shall lay up the sorrow of the father for his children: and when he shall repay, then shall he know.Select Job 21:19

20His eyes shall see his own destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty.Select Job 21:20

21For what is it to him what befalleth his house after him: and if the number of his months be diminished by one half?Select Job 21:21

22Shall any one teach God knowledge, who judgeth those that are high?Select Job 21:22

23One man dieth strong, and hale, rich and happy.Select Job 21:23

24His bowels are full of fat, and his bones are moistened with marrow.Select Job 21:24

25But another dieth in bitterness of soul without any riches:Select Job 21:25

26And yet they shall sleep together in the dust, and worms shall cover them.Select Job 21:26

27Surely I know your thoughts, and your unjust judgments against me.Select Job 21:27

28For you say: Where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked?Select Job 21:28

29Ask any one of them that go by the way, and you shall perceive that he knoweth these same things.Select Job 21:29

30Because the wicked man is reserved to the day of destruction, and he shall be brought to the day of wrath.Select Job 21:30

31Who shall reprove his way to his face? and who shall repay him what he hath done?Select Job 21:31

32He shall be brought to the graves, and shall watch in the heap of the dead.Select Job 21:32

33He hath been acceptable to the gravel of Cocytus, and he shall draw every man after him, and there are innumerable before him.Select Job 21:33

34How then do ye comfort me in vain, whereas your answer is shewn to be repugnant to truth?Select Job 21:34