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Job: God will Deal with the Wicked
And Job answered and said,
And Job answered and said,
Job’s Seventh Speech: A Response to Zophar
Then Job spoke again:
Then Job spoke again:
Hear attentively my speech, and let this replace your consolations.
“Listen closely to what I am saying.
That’s one consolation you can give me.
That’s one consolation you can give me.
Suffer me and I will speak; and after I have spoken, mock on!
Bear with me, and let me speak.
After I have spoken, you may resume mocking me.
After I have spoken, you may resume mocking me.
As for me, is my complaint to a man? or wherefore should not my spirit be impatient?
“My complaint is with God, not with people.
I have good reason to be so impatient.
I have good reason to be so impatient.
Mark me, and be astonished, and lay the hand upon the mouth.
Look at me and be stunned.
Put your hand over your mouth in shock.
Put your hand over your mouth in shock.
Even when I think [thereon], I am affrighted, and trembling taketh hold of my flesh.
When I think about what I am saying, I shudder.
My body trembles.
My body trembles.
Wherefore do the wicked live, grow old, yea, become mighty in power?
“Why do the wicked prosper,
growing old and powerful?
growing old and powerful?
Their seed is established with them in their sight, and their offspring before their eyes.
They live to see their children grow up and settle down,
and they enjoy their grandchildren.
and they enjoy their grandchildren.
Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of +God upon them.
Their homes are safe from every fear,
and God does not punish them.
and God does not punish them.
Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf.
Their bulls never fail to breed.
Their cows bear calves and never miscarry.
Their cows bear calves and never miscarry.
They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.
They let their children frisk about like lambs.
Their little ones skip and dance.
Their little ones skip and dance.
They shout to the tambour and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the pipe.
They sing with tambourine and harp.
They celebrate to the sound of the flute.
They celebrate to the sound of the flute.
They spend their days in prosperity, and in a moment go down to Sheol.
And they say unto God, Depart from us, for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways!
And yet they say to God, ‘Go away.
We want no part of you and your ways.
We want no part of you and your ways.
What is the Almighty that we should serve him? and what are we profited if we pray unto him?
Who is the Almighty, and why should we obey him?
What good will it do us to pray?’
What good will it do us to pray?’
Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand. The counsel of the wicked be far from me!
(They think their prosperity is of their own doing,
but I will have nothing to do with that kind of thinking.)
but I will have nothing to do with that kind of thinking.)
How often is the lamp of the wicked put out, and cometh their calamity upon them? Doth he distribute sorrows [to them] in his anger?
“Yet the light of the wicked never seems to be extinguished.
Do they ever have trouble?
Does God distribute sorrows to them in anger?
Do they ever have trouble?
Does God distribute sorrows to them in anger?
Do they become as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away?
Are they driven before the wind like straw?
Are they carried away by the storm like chaff?
Not at all!
Are they carried away by the storm like chaff?
Not at all!
+God layeth up [the punishment of] his iniquity for his children; he rewardeth him, and he shall know [it]:
“‘Well,’ you say, ‘at least God will punish their children!’
But I say he should punish the ones who sin,
so that they understand his judgment.
But I say he should punish the ones who sin,
so that they understand his judgment.
His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the fury of the Almighty.
Let them see their destruction with their own eyes.
Let them drink deeply of the anger of the Almighty.
Let them drink deeply of the anger of the Almighty.
For what pleasure should he have in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off?
For they will not care what happens to their family
after they are dead.
after they are dead.
Can any teach God knowledge? And he it is that judgeth those that are high.
“But who can teach a lesson to God,
since he judges even the most powerful?
since he judges even the most powerful?
One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet;
One person dies in prosperity,
completely comfortable and secure,
completely comfortable and secure,
His sides are full of fat, and the marrow of his bones is moistened;
the picture of good health,
vigorous and fit.
vigorous and fit.
And another dieth in bitterness of soul, and hath not tasted good:
Another person dies in bitter poverty,
never having tasted the good life.
never having tasted the good life.
Together they lie down in the dust, and the worms cover them.
But both are buried in the same dust,
both eaten by the same maggots.
both eaten by the same maggots.
Lo, I know your thoughts, and the devices ye wrongfully imagine against me.
“Look, I know what you’re thinking.
I know the schemes you plot against me.
I know the schemes you plot against me.
For ye say, Where is the house of the noble? and where the tent of the dwellings of the wicked?
You will tell me of rich and wicked people
whose houses have vanished because of their sins.
whose houses have vanished because of their sins.
Have ye not asked the wayfarers? and do ye not regard their tokens:
But ask those who have been around,
and they will tell you the truth.
and they will tell you the truth.
That the wicked is reserved for the day of calamity? They are led forth to the day of wrath.
Evil people are spared in times of calamity
and are allowed to escape disaster.
and are allowed to escape disaster.
Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him what he hath done?
No one criticizes them openly
or pays them back for what they have done.
or pays them back for what they have done.
Yet is he carried to the graves, and watch is kept over the tomb.
When they are carried to the grave,
an honor guard keeps watch at their tomb.
an honor guard keeps watch at their tomb.
The clods of the valley are sweet unto him; and every man followeth suit after him, as there were innumerable before him.
A great funeral procession goes to the cemetery.
Many pay their respects as the body is laid to rest,
and the earth gives sweet repose.
Many pay their respects as the body is laid to rest,
and the earth gives sweet repose.