Shall any teach God knowledge? seeing he judgeth those that are high.

One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.

His breasts are full of milk, and his bones are moistened with marrow.

That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they will be brought forth to the day of wrath.

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

Yet he shall be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb.

How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood?

And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never eateth with pleasure.

They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.

Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me.

They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them.

Why do the wicked live, become old, and, are mighty in power?

For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked?

But Job answered and said,

Therefore they say to God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.

Have ye not asked them that go by the way? and do ye not know their tokens,

The clods of the valley will be sweet to him, and every man will draw after him, as there are innumerable before him.

They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.

They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ.

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

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

How oft is the candle of the wicked put out? and how oft cometh their destruction upon them? God distributeth sorrows in his anger.

Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations.

Suffer me that I may speak; and after I have spoken, mock on.

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

Mark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth.

God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know it.

For what pleasure hath he in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off in the midst?

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

His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty.

As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled?

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

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

Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh.