1Then Job answered and said,
2Hear diligently my speech;
3Suffer me, and I also will speak;
4As for me, is my complaint to man?
5Mark me, and be astonished,
6Even when I remember I am troubled,
7Wherefore do the wicked live,
8Their seed is established with them in their sight,
9Their houses are safe from fear,
10Their bull gendereth, and faileth not;
11They send forth their little ones like a flock,
12They sing to the timbrel and harp,
13They spend their days in prosperity,
14And they say unto God, Depart from us;
15What is the Almighty, that we should serve him?
16Lo, their prosperity is not in their hand:
17How oft is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out?
18That they are as stubble before the wind,
19Ye say, God layeth up his iniquity for his children.
20Let his own eyes see his destruction,
21For what careth he for his house after him,
22Shall any teach God knowledge,
23One dieth in his full strength,
24His pails are full of milk,
25And another dieth in bitterness of soul,
26They lie down alike in the dust,
27Behold, I know your thoughts,
28For ye say, Where is the house of the prince?
29Have ye not asked wayfaring men?
30That the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity?
31Who shall declare his way to his face?
32Yet shall he be borne to the grave,
33The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him,
34How then comfort ye me in vain,