Job 21:7-21 - Wicked People Do Not Suffer For Their Sins

⁷ “Why do the wicked still live,
Continue on, also become very powerful?
⁸ “Their descendants are established with them in their sight,
And their offspring before their eyes,
⁹ Their houses are safe from fear,
And the rod of God is not on them.
¹⁰ “His ox mates without fail;
His cow calves and does not abort.
¹¹ “They send forth their little ones like the flock,
And their children skip about.
¹² “They sing to the timbrel and harp
And rejoice at the sound of the flute.
¹³ “They spend their days in prosperity,
And suddenly they go down to Sheol.
¹⁴ “They say to God, ‘Depart from us!
We do not even desire the knowledge of Your ways.
¹⁵ ‘Who is the Almighty, that we should serve Him,
And what would we gain if we entreat Him?’
¹⁶ “Behold, their prosperity 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,
Or does their calamity fall on them?
Does God apportion destruction in His anger?
¹⁸ “Are they as straw before the wind,
And like chaff which the storm carries away?
¹⁹ “You say, ‘God stores away a man’s iniquity for his sons.’
Let God repay him so that he may know it.
²⁰ “Let his own eyes see his decay,
And let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
²¹ “For what does he care for his household after him,
When the number of his months is cut off?