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¹ THEN Job answered and said,² Listen diligently to my speech, and let this be your consolation.³ Suffer me that I may speak; and after I have spoken, then mock on.⁴ I will utter my complaint to men, why my spirit is distressed.⁵ Return to me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth.⁶ Even when I think of it, I tremble, and terror takes hold of my flesh.

⁷ Why do the ungodly live, and why are the mighty in power full of years?⁸ Their descendants are established in their sight with them, and their children before their eyes.⁹ Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them.¹⁰ Their bull breeds, and fails not; their cow calves, and does not cast her calf.¹¹ Their children stand firm like a flock, and their boys dance.¹² They take the timbrels and harps, and rejoice at the sound of singing.¹³ They spend their days in prosperity, and then suddenly go down to Sheol.¹⁴ They say to God, Depart from us; for we do not desire to know thy ways.¹⁵ Moreover, they say, Who is God, that we should serve him? And what would we gain, that we should pray to him?¹⁶ Lo, they have no power over their prosperity; the counsel of the ungodly is far from me.

¹⁷ How often is it that the wicked are left without an heir! how often their destruction comes upon them! God distributes sorrows in his anger.¹⁸ They are like straw before the wind, and like chaff that the storm carries away.¹⁹ God reserves mans iniquity for his children; he pays it back to him, and he shall know it.²⁰ His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty.²¹ For what pleasure has he in his house after him, when a portion of his years shall be reserved for his posterity?²² Shall any teach God knowledge, seeing it is he who judges the proud?²³ One dies in his full strength, sound of body, being wholly confident, and at ease.²⁴ His body is full of fat, and his bones are filled with marrow.²⁵ And another dies in the bitterness of his soul, never having tasted prosperity.²⁶ They shall lie down in the dust, and the worms shall cover them.

²⁷ Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which you wrongfully imagine against me.²⁸ For you say. Where is the house of the righteous? And where is the place in which the wicked has pitched his tent?²⁹ Have you not asked those who pass by the way? And do you not recognize their tokens?³⁰ For the evil man is reserved for the day of destruction, he shall be remembered in the day of wrath.³¹ Who can show him the way? And who shall repay him for what he has done?³² Yet he shall be brought to the grave, he is reserved for misfortune.³³ The depths of the valley shall swallow him, and many shall be drawn in after him, even as there are innumerable ahead of him.³⁴ How then can you comfort me in vain, seeing that your abominable answers are multiplied before me?