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¹ And Job answered and said:² Listen carefully to my speech, and let this be your comfort.³ Rise with me and I shall speak; then after I have spoken, you may mock.⁴ As for me, is my complaint to man? And why should not my spirit be short?⁵ Turn toward me and be astonished, and put your hand on your mouth.⁶ And if I remember, I am dismayed; and trembling seizes on my flesh.

⁷ Why do the wicked live? They grow old, and become mighty in power.⁸ Their seed is established with them before their face, and their offspring before their eyes.⁹ Their houses are in peace, without fear; nor is God's rod on them.¹⁰ His bull passes semen and does not fail; his cow calves and does not miscarry.¹¹ They send their little ones out as a flock; and their children dance.¹² They lift up voice at the timbrel and lyre, and rejoice at the sound of the flute.¹³ They spend their days in good, and in a moment go down to Sheol.¹⁴ And they say to God, Depart from us, for we do not desire the knowledge of Your ways.¹⁵ What is the Almighty, that we should serve Him? And what do we profit if we entreat Him?¹⁶ Behold, their good is not in their hand! The counsel of the wicked is far from me.

¹⁷ How often is the lamp of the wicked put out, and their calamity comes on them! He shares out pangs in His anger;¹⁸ they are as straw before the wind, and as chaff that the tempest steals away.¹⁹ God stores up his iniquity for his sons; He repays him, and he knows.²⁰ His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty.²¹ For what is his delight in his house after him, and his number of months is cut off.²² Shall any teach God knowledge, since He shall judge those exalted?²³ One dies in his full strength, wholly secure and at ease;²⁴ his sides are full of milk, and his bones are wet with marrow.²⁵ And another dies with bitter soul, and never eats with pleasure;²⁶ they lie down together on the dust, and the worms shall cover over them.

²⁷ Behold, I know your thoughts, and the plots you would wrongfully do against me;²⁸ for you say, Where is the house of the noble, and where the tent, the dwellings of the wicked?²⁹ Did you not ask those who pass along the highway; and do you not know their signs?³⁰ For the wicked is kept for the day of calamity; they shall be brought to the day of wrath.³¹ Who shall declare his way to his face? And who repays him for what he has done?³² Yet he shall be brought to the grave, and watch shall be kept over his tomb.³³ And the clods of the valley shall be sweet to him; and every man shall draw after him; and there is not any number before him.³⁴ How then do you comfort me with vanity? Yea, in your answers remains treachery.