Job 21:23-34 ▼

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

24 His pails are full of milk. The marrow of his bones is moistened.

25 Another dies in bitterness of soul, and never tastes of good.

26 They lie down alike in the dust. The worm covers them.

27 “Behold, I know your thoughts, the plans with which you would wrong me.

28 For you say, ‘Where is the house of the prince? Where is the tent in which the wicked lived?’

29 Haven’t you asked wayfaring men? Don’t you know their evidences,

30 that the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity, that they are led out to the day of wrath?

31 Who will declare his way to his face? Who will repay him what he has done?

32 Yet he will be borne to the grave. Men will keep watch over the tomb.

33 The clods of the valley will be sweet to him. All men will draw after him, as there were innumerable before him.

34 So how can you comfort me with nonsense, because in your answers there remains only falsehood?”