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¹ Then Job answered and said:² Hear diligently my speech; and let this be your consolations.³ Suffer me, that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on.⁴ As for me, is my complaint to man? Or why should I not be impatient?⁵ Turn unto me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth.⁶ Even when I remember I am affrighted, and horror hath taketh hold on my flesh.

⁷ Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, wax mighty in power?⁸ Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes.⁹ Their houses are safe, without fear, neither is the rod of God upon them.¹⁰ Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf.¹¹ They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.¹² They sing to the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the pipe.¹³ They spend their days in prosperity, and peacefully they go down to the grave.¹⁴ Yet they said unto God: 'Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of Thy ways.¹⁵ What is the Almighty, that we should serve Him? And what profit should we have, if we pray unto Him?'--¹⁶ Lo, their prosperity is not in their hand; the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

¹⁷ How oft is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out? that their calamity cometh upon them? ¹⁸ That they are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm stealeth away?¹⁹ 'God layeth up his iniquity for his children!'--let Him recompense it unto himself, that he may know it.²⁰ Let his own eyes see his destruction, and let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.²¹ For what pleasure hath he in his house after him? seeing the number of his months is determined.²² Shall any teach God knowledge? seeing it is He that judgeth those that are high.²³ One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet;²⁴ His pails are full of milk, and the marrow of his bones is moistened.²⁵ And another dieth in bitterness of soul, and hath never tasted of good.²⁶ They lie down alike in the dust, and the worm covereth them.

²⁷ Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me.²⁸ For ye say: 'Where is the house of the prince? And where is the tent wherein the wicked dwelt?'²⁹ Have ye not asked them that go by the way; and will ye misdeem their tokens,³⁰ That the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity, that they are led forth to the day of wrath?³¹ But who shall declare his way to his face? And who shall repay him what he hath done?³² For he is borne to the grave, and watch is kept over his tomb.³³ The clods of the valley are sweet unto him, and all men draw after him, as there were innumerable before him.³⁴ How then comfort ye me in vain? And as for your answers, there remaineth only faithlessness?