^[1]  But Job answered and said,

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^[2]  Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations.

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^[3]  Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on.

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^[4]  As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled?

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^[5]  Mark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand on your mouth.

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^[6]  Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling takes hold on my flesh.

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^[7]  Why do the wicked live, become old, yes, are mighty in power?

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^[8]  Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes.

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^[9]  Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God on them.

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^[10]  Their bull engenders, and fails not; their cow calves, and casts not her calf.

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^[11]  They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.

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^[12]  They take the tambourine and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ.

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^[13]  They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.

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^[14]  Therefore they say to God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of your ways.

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^[15]  What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray to him?

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^[16]  See, their good is not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

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^[17]  How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and how oft comes their destruction on them! God distributes sorrows in his anger.

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^[18]  They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carries away.

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^[19]  God lays up his iniquity for his children: he rewards him, and he shall know it.

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^[20]  His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty.

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^[21]  For what pleasure has he in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off in the middle?

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^[22]  Shall any teach God knowledge? seeing he judges those that are high.

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^[23]  One dies in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.

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^[24]  His breasts are full of milk, and his bones are moistened with marrow.

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^[25]  And another dies in the bitterness of his soul, and never eats with pleasure.

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^[26]  They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them.

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^[27]  Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which you wrongfully imagine against me.

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^[28]  For you say, Where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked?

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^[29]  Have you not asked them that go by the way? and do you not know their tokens,

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^[30]  That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.

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^[31]  Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him what he has done?

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^[32]  Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb.

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^[33]  The clods of the valley shall be sweet to him, and every man shall draw after him, as there are innumerable before him.

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^[34]  How then comfort you me in vain, seeing in your answers there remains falsehood?

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