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Wherefore do the wicked live, Become old, yea, wax mighty in power?

Suffer me, and I also will speak; And after that I have spoken, mock on.

Hear diligently my speech; And let this be your consolations.

Then Job answered and said,

Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; Their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf.

They spend their days in prosperity, And in a moment they go down to Sheol.

What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? And what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?

And they say unto God, Depart from us; For we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.

They sing to the timbrel and harp, And rejoice at the sound of the pipe.

They send forth their little ones like a flock, And their children dance.

Their seed is established with them in their sight, And their offspring before their eyes.

Their houses are safe from fear, Neither is the rod of God upon them.

Lo, their prosperity is not in their hand: The counsel of the wicked is far from me.

For what careth he for his house after him, When the number of his months is cut off?

`Ye say', God layeth up his iniquity for his children. Let him recompense it unto himself, that he may know it:

Shall any teach God knowledge, Seeing he judgeth those that are high?

How oft is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out? That their calamity cometh upon them? That `God' distributeth sorrows in his anger?

That they are as stubble before the wind, And as chaff that the storm carrieth away?

Let his own eyes see his destruction, And let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.

One dieth in his full strength, Being wholly at ease and quiet:

They lie down alike in the dust, And the worm covereth them.

Behold, I know your thoughts, And the devices wherewith ye would wrong me.

His pails are full of milk, And the marrow of his bones is moistened.

Who shall declare his way to his face? And who shall repay him what he hath done?

Yet shall he be borne to the grave, And men shall keep watch over the tomb.

Have ye not asked wayfaring men? And do ye not know their evidences,

How then comfort ye me in vain, Seeing in your answers there remaineth `only' falsehood?

For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? And where is the tent wherein the wicked dwelt?

That the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity? That they are led forth to the day of wrath?