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¹ Then Job answered and said,² Hear diligently my speech; And let this be your consolations.³ Allow me, and I also will speak; And after I have spoken, mock on.⁴ As for me, is my complaint to man? And why should I not be impatient?⁵ Mark me, and be astonished, And lay your hand on your mouth.⁶ Even when I remember I am troubled, And horror takes hold on my flesh.

⁷ Why do the wicked live, Become old, yes, wax mighty in power?⁸ Their seed is established with them in their sight, And their offspring before their eyes.⁹ Their houses are safe from fear, Neither is the rod of God on them.¹⁰ Their bull genders, and does not fail; Their cow calves, and does not cast 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 in a moment they go down to Sheol.¹⁴ And they say to God, Depart from us; For we don't desire knowledge of your ways.¹⁵ What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? And what profit should we have, if we pray to him?¹⁶ Look, their prosperity is not in their hand: The counsel of the wicked is far from me.

¹⁷ How often is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out? That their calamity comes on them? That [God] distributes sorrows in his anger?¹⁸ That they are as stubble before the wind, And as chaff that the storm carries away?¹⁹ [You say], God lays up his iniquity for his sons. Let him recompense it to 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 does he care for his house after him, When the number of his months is cut off?²² Shall any teach God knowledge, Seeing he judges those that are high?²³ One dies 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 dies in bitterness of soul, And never tastes of good.²⁶ They lie down alike in the dust, And the worm covers them.

²⁷ Look, I know your thoughts, And the devices with which you would wrong me.²⁸ For you say, Where is the house of the prince? And where is the tent wherein the wicked dwelt?²⁹ Have you not asked wayfaring men? And do you not know their evidences,³⁰ That the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity? That they are led forth to the day of wrath?³¹ Who shall declare his way to his face? And who shall repay him what he has done?³² Yet he shall be borne to the grave, And men shall keep watch over the tomb.³³ The clods of the valley shall be sweet to him, And all of man shall draw after him, As there were innumerable before him.³⁴ How then do you comfort me in vain, Seeing in your answers there remains [only] falsehood?