Job 21:1-11 ▼

1 Then Job answered:

2 Listen carefully to my words; let this be the consolation you offer me.

3 Bear with me and I will speak, and after I have spoken you may mock.

4 Is my complaint against a man? If so, why should I not be impatient?

5 Look at me and be appalled; put your hands over your mouths.

6 For, when I think about this, I am terrified and my body feels a shudder.

7 Why do the wicked go on living, grow old, even increase in power?

8 Their children are firmly established in their presence, their offspring before their eyes.

9 Their houses are safe and without fear; and no rod of punishment from God is upon them.

10 Their bulls breed without fail; their cows calve and do not miscarry.

11 They allow their children to run like a flock; their little ones dance about.