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¹ And Job answers and says:² "Hear my word diligently, || And this is your consolation.³ Bear with me, and I speak, || And after my speaking—you may deride.⁴ [Is] my complaint [against] man? And if [so], why may my temper not become short?⁵ Turn to me, and be astonished, || And put hand to mouth.⁶ Indeed, if I have remembered, then I have been troubled. And my flesh has taken fright.

⁷ Why do the wicked live? They have become old, || Indeed, they have been mighty in wealth.⁸ Their seed is established, || Before their face with them, || And their offspring before their eyes.⁹ Their houses [are] peace without fear, || Nor [is] a rod of God on them.¹⁰ His bullock breeds without fail. His cow brings forth safely, and does not miscarry.¹¹ They send forth their sucklings as a flock, || And their children skip,¹² They lift [themselves] up at timbrel and harp, || And rejoice at the sound of a pipe.¹³ They wear out their days in good, || And in a moment go down [to] Sheol.¹⁴ And they say to God, Turn aside from us, || And the knowledge of Your ways || We have not desired.¹⁵ What [is] the Mighty One that we serve Him? And what do we profit when we meet with Him?¹⁶ Behold, their good [is] not in their hand || (The counsel of the wicked || Has been far from me).

¹⁷ How often is the lamp of the wicked extinguished, || And their calamity comes on them? He apportions pangs in His anger.¹⁸ They are as straw before wind, || And as chaff a windstorm has stolen away,¹⁹ God lays up for his sons his sorrow, || He gives repayment to him—and he knows.²⁰ His own eyes see his destruction, || And he drinks of the wrath of the Mighty.²¹ For what [is] his delight in his house after him, || And the number of his months cut off?²² Does [one] teach knowledge to God, || Since He judges [those] on high?²³ This [one] dies in his perfect strength, || Wholly at ease and quiet.²⁴ His breasts have been full of milk, || And marrow moistens his bones.²⁵ And this [one] dies with a bitter soul, || And has not eaten with gladness.²⁶ Together they lie down on the dust, || And the worm covers them over.

²⁷ Behold, I have known your thoughts, || And the schemes against me you do wrongfully.²⁸ For you say, Where [is] the house of the noble? And where the tent—the dwelling places of the wicked?²⁹ Have you not asked those passing by the way? And do you not know their signs?³⁰ That the wicked is spared to a day of calamity. They are brought to a day of wrath.³¹ Who declares his way to his face? And [for] that which he has done, || Who gives repayment to him?³² And he is brought to the graves, || And a watch is kept over the heap.³³ The clods of the valley have been sweet to him, || And he draws every man after him, || And there is no numbering before him.³⁴ And how do you comfort me [with] vanity, || And trespass has been left in your answers?"