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Job’s Seventh Speech: A Response to Zophar
Then Job spoke again:
Then Job spoke again:
Job: God will Deal with the Wicked
But Job answered and said,
But Job answered and said,
“Listen closely to what I am saying.
That’s one consolation you can give me.
That’s one consolation you can give me.
Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations.
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.
Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on.
“My complaint is with God, not with people.
I have good reason to be so impatient.
I have good reason to be so impatient.
As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled?
Look at me and be stunned.
Put your hand over your mouth in shock.
Put your hand over your mouth in shock.
Mark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth.
When I think about what I am saying, I shudder.
My body trembles.
My body trembles.
Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh.
“Why do the wicked prosper,
growing old and powerful?
growing old and powerful?
Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?
They live to see their children grow up and settle down,
and they enjoy their grandchildren.
and they enjoy their grandchildren.
Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes.
Their homes are safe from every fear,
and God does not punish them.
and God does not punish them.
Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them.
Their bulls never fail to breed.
Their cows bear calves and never miscarry.
Their cows bear calves and never miscarry.
Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf.
They let their children frisk about like lambs.
Their little ones skip and dance.
Their little ones skip and dance.
They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.
They sing with tambourine and harp.
They celebrate to the sound of the flute.
They celebrate to the sound of the flute.
They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ.
They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.
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.
Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.
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?’
What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?
(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.)
Lo, their good is not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
“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?
How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and how oft cometh their destruction upon them! God distributeth sorrows in his anger.
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!
They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.
“‘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.
God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know it.
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.
His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
For they will not care what happens to their family
after they are dead.
after they are dead.
For what pleasure hath he in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off in the midst?
“But who can teach a lesson to God,
since he judges even the most powerful?
since he judges even the most powerful?
Shall any teach God knowledge? seeing he judgeth those that are high.
One person dies in prosperity,
completely comfortable and secure,
completely comfortable and secure,
One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.
the picture of good health,
vigorous and fit.
vigorous and fit.
His breasts are full of milk, and his bones are moistened with marrow.
Another person dies in bitter poverty,
never having tasted the good life.
never having tasted the good life.
And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never eateth with pleasure.
But both are buried in the same dust,
both eaten by the same maggots.
both eaten by the same maggots.
They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them.
“Look, I know what you’re thinking.
I know the schemes you plot against me.
I know the schemes you plot against me.
Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me.
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.
For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked?
But ask those who have been around,
and they will tell you the truth.
and they will tell you the truth.
Have ye not asked them that go by the way? and do ye not know their tokens,
Evil people are spared in times of calamity
and are allowed to escape disaster.
and are allowed to escape disaster.
That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.
No one criticizes them openly
or pays them back for what they have done.
or pays them back for what they have done.
Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him what he hath done?
When they are carried to the grave,
an honor guard keeps watch at their tomb.
an honor guard keeps watch at their tomb.
Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb.
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.
The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, and every man shall draw after him, as there are innumerable before him.