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

⁷ "Wherefore do wicked men live in health and prosperity, come to their old age, and increase in riches? ⁸ Their children's children live in their sight, and their generation before their eyes. ⁹ Their houses are safe from all fear, for the rod of God doth not smite them. ¹⁰ Their bullock gendereth, and that not out of time: their cow calveth, and is not unfruitful. ¹¹ They send forth their children by flocks, and their sons lead the dance. ¹² They bear with them tabrets and harps, and have instruments of music at their pleasure. ¹³ They spend their days in wealthiness: but suddenly, they go down to hell. ¹⁴ They say unto God, 'Go from us: we desire not the knowledge of thy ways! ¹⁵ What manner of fellow is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What profit should we have, to submit ourselves unto him?' ¹⁶ Lo, there is utterly no goodness in them, therefore will not I have to do with the counsel of the ungodly.

¹⁷ "How oft shall the candle of the wicked be put out? How oft cometh their destruction upon them? Oh what sorrow shall God give them for their part in his wrath! ¹⁸ Yea, they shall be even as chaff before the wind, and as dust that the storm carrieth away. ¹⁹ And though God save their children from such sorrow, yet will he so reward themselves, that they shall know it. ²⁰ Their own destruction and misery shall they see with their eyes, and drink of the fearful wrath of the Almighty. ²¹ For what careth he, what become of his household after his death, when the number of his months is cut short?