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

⁷ Why do the wicked live, become old, yea, grow 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, nor is the rod of God upon them. ¹⁰ Their bull breeds, and does not fail. Their cow brings forth safely, and does not miscarry. 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 do not desire the knowledge of thy ways. ¹⁵ What is the Almighty that we should serve him? And what profit should we have, if we pray to him? ¹⁶ Lo, [is] their prosperity not in their hand. (The counsel of the wicked is far from me.)

¹⁷ How often is it that the lamp of the profane is put out, that their calamity comes upon 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 [Ye 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?