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

⁷ "Why do the wicked live to reach old age and increase in power and wealth, too? ⁸ Their children grow up while they're alive, and they live to see their grandchildren. ⁹ Their houses are safe from fear, and God's chastisement never visits them. ¹⁰ Their bull breeds without fail, and their cows calve without miscarriages. ¹¹ They release their children to play like sheep; their young ones dance about, ¹² singing with tambourines and lyres as they rejoice to the sound of flutes. ¹³ They grow old in prosperity, as they descend peacefully into the afterlife. ¹⁴ "They say to God, "Turn away from us! We have no desire to know your ways. ¹⁵ Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him? Where's the profit in talking to him?' ¹⁶ Behold! Their prosperity isn't in their control! The counsel of the wicked will remain far from me."

¹⁷ "How often do the wicked have their lights put out? Does calamity ever fall on them? Will God in his anger ever apportion their destruction? ¹⁸ May they become like a straw, blown away before the wind; like a chaff that's swept off by a storm. ¹⁹ God stores up their iniquity to repay their children; making them repay so that they may be aware. ²⁰ Their own eyes will see their destruction; and they'll drink the wrath of the Almighty. ²¹ What will they care for their household after them, when the number of his months comes to an end?"