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

⁷ "Why do [the] wicked live, grow old, even grow mighty [in] power? ⁸ With them their offspring [are] established {before them}, and their descendants before their eyes. ⁹ Their houses [are] safe without fear, and the rod of God [is] not upon them. ¹⁰ His bull breeds and does not fail; his cow calves and does not miscarry. ¹¹ They send out their little ones like the flock, and their children dance around. ¹² They {sing} to [the] tambourine and lyre, and they rejoice to [the] sound of [the] long flute. ¹³ They spend their days in prosperity, and in peace they go down to Sheol. ¹⁴ And they say to God, 'Turn away from us, for we do not desire to know your ways. ¹⁵ Who [is] Shaddai that we should serve him, or what would we benefit when we plead with him?' ¹⁶ Look, their prosperity [is] not in their hands; the schemes of [the] wicked are repugnant to me.

¹⁷ "How often is [the] lamp of [the] wicked put out, and their disaster comes upon them? He distributes pains in his anger. ¹⁸ [How often] are they like straw {before} the wind, and like chaff that [the] storm carries away? ¹⁹ 'God stores up his iniquity for his children'? [Then] let him repay [it] to him that he may know. ²⁰ Let his eyes see his decay, and let him drink from the wrath of Shaddai, ²¹ for what {does he care for} his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off?