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Job Replies: The Wicked Do Prosper
Then Job answered and said:
Then Job answered and said:
Job: God will Deal with the Wicked
And Job answered and said,
And Job answered and said,
“Keep listening to my words,
and let this be your comfort.
and let this be your comfort.
Hear attentively my speech, and let this replace your consolations.
Bear with me, and I will speak,
and after I have spoken, mock on.
and after I have spoken, mock on.
Suffer me and I will speak; and after I have spoken, mock on!
As for me, is my complaint against man?
Why should I not be impatient?
Why should I not be impatient?
As for me, is my complaint to a man? or wherefore should not my spirit be impatient?
Look at me and be appalled,
and lay your hand over your mouth.
and lay your hand over your mouth.
Mark me, and be astonished, and lay the hand upon the mouth.
When I remember, I am dismayed,
and shuddering seizes my flesh.
and shuddering seizes my flesh.
Even when I think [thereon], I am affrighted, and trembling taketh hold of my flesh.
Why do the wicked live,
reach old age, and grow mighty in power?
reach old age, and grow mighty in power?
Wherefore do the wicked live, grow old, yea, become mighty in power?
Their offspring are established in their presence,
and their descendants before their eyes.
and their descendants before their eyes.
Their seed is established with them in their sight, and their offspring before their eyes.
Their houses are safe from fear,
and no rod of God is upon them.
and no rod of God is upon them.
Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of +God upon them.
Their bull breeds without fail;
their cow calves and does not miscarry.
their cow calves and does not miscarry.
Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf.
They send out their little boys like a flock,
and their children dance.
and their children dance.
They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.
They sing to the tambourine and the lyre
and rejoice to the sound of the pipe.
and rejoice to the sound of the pipe.
They shout to the tambour and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the pipe.
They spend their days in prosperity,
and in peace they go down to Sheol.
and in peace they go down to Sheol.
They spend their days in prosperity, and in a moment go down to Sheol.
They say to God, ‘Depart from us!
We do not desire the knowledge of your ways.
We do not desire the knowledge of your ways.
And they say unto God, Depart from us, for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways!
What is the Almighty, that we should serve him?
And what profit do we get if we pray to him?’
And what profit do we get if we pray to him?’
What is the Almighty that we should serve him? and what are we profited if we pray unto him?
Behold, is not their prosperity in their hand?
The counsel of the wicked is far from me.
The counsel of the wicked is far from me.
Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand. The counsel of the wicked be far from me!
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?
That they are like straw before the wind,
and like chaff that the storm carries away?
and like chaff that the storm carries away?
Do they become as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away?
You say, ‘God stores up their iniquity for their children.’
Let him pay it out to them, that they may know it.
Let him pay it out to them, that they may know it.
+God layeth up [the punishment of] his iniquity for his children; he rewardeth him, and he shall know [it]:
Let their own eyes see their destruction,
and let them drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
and let them drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the fury of the Almighty.
For what do they care for their houses after them,
when the number of their months is cut off?
when the number of their months is cut off?
For what pleasure should he have in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off?
Will any teach God knowledge,
seeing that he judges those who are on high?
seeing that he judges those who are on high?
Can any teach God knowledge? And he it is that judgeth those that are high.
One dies in his full vigor,
being wholly at ease and secure,
being wholly at ease and secure,
One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet;
His sides are full of fat, and the marrow of his bones is moistened;
Another dies in bitterness of soul,
never having tasted of prosperity.
never having tasted of prosperity.
And another dieth in bitterness of soul, and hath not tasted good:
They lie down alike in the dust,
and the worms cover them.
and the worms cover them.
Together they lie down in the dust, and the worms cover them.
“Behold, I know your thoughts
and your schemes to wrong me.
and your schemes to wrong me.
Lo, I know your thoughts, and the devices ye wrongfully imagine against me.
For you say, ‘Where is the house of the prince?
Where is the tent in which the wicked lived?’
Where is the tent in which the wicked lived?’
For ye say, Where is the house of the noble? and where the tent of the dwellings of the wicked?
Have you not asked those who travel the roads,
and do you not accept their testimony
and do you not accept their testimony
Have ye not asked the wayfarers? and do ye not regard their tokens:
that the evil man is spared in the day of calamity,
that he is rescued in the day of wrath?
that he is rescued in the day of wrath?
That the wicked is reserved for the day of calamity? They are led forth to the day of wrath.
Who declares his way to his face,
and who repays him for what he has done?
and who repays him for what he has done?
Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him what he hath done?
When he is carried to the grave,
watch is kept over his tomb.
watch is kept over his tomb.
Yet is he carried to the graves, and watch is kept over the tomb.
The clods of the valley are sweet to him;
all mankind follows after him,
and those who go before him are innumerable.
all mankind follows after him,
and those who go before him are innumerable.
The clods of the valley are sweet unto him; and every man followeth suit after him, as there were innumerable before him.