Job 21:1-15 ▼

1 Bvt Iob answered, and sayd,

2 Heare diligently my wordes, and this shalbe in stead of your consolations.

3 Suffer mee, that I may speake, and when I haue spoken, mocke on.

4 Doe I direct my talke to man? If it were so, how should not my spirit be troubled?

5 Marke mee, and be abashed, and lay your hand vpon your mouth.

6 Euen when I remember, I am afrayde, and feare taketh hold on my flesh.

7 Wherefore do the wicked liue, and waxe olde, and grow in wealth?

8 Their seede is established in their sight with them, and their generation before their eyes.

9 Their houses are peaceable without feare, and the rod of God is not vpon them.

10 Their bullocke gendreth, and fayleth not: their cow calueth, and casteth not her calfe.

11 They send forth their children like sheepe, and their sonnes dance.

12 They take the tabret & harpe, and reioyce in the sound of the organs.

13 They spend their dayes in wealth, and suddenly they go downe to the graue.

14 They say also vnto God, Depart fro vs: for we desire not the knowledge of thy wayes.

15 Who is the Almightie, that we should serue him? and what profit should we haue, if we should pray vnto him?