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

⁷ Why do the wicked live on, reach old age, and become mighty in power? ⁸ Their children are established in their presence, and their offspring before their eyes. ⁹ Their houses are safe and without fear, and no rod of God is upon them. ¹⁰ Their bull breeds without fail and their cow calves and never miscarries. ¹¹ They send out their little ones like a flock, and their children dance around. ¹² They sing to the tambourine and the lyre, and rejoice to the sound of the pipe. ¹³ They spend their days in prosperity, and in peace they go down to the grave. ¹⁴ They say to God: 'Leave us alone! We do not desire to know your ways.' ¹⁵ Who is the Almighty that we should serve him? And what do we gain if we pray to him? ¹⁶ Is their prosperity indeed their own achievement? The plans of the wicked are repugnant to me.

¹⁷ How often is the lamp of the wicked put out? How often does calamity come upon them? How often does God distribute pains and sorrow in his anger? ¹⁸ How often are they like straw before the wind, and like chaff that the storm carries away? ¹⁹ You say: 'God stores up their iniquity for their children.' Let God repay them so they may know. ²⁰ Let their own eyes see their destruction, and let them drink of the wrath of the Almighty. ²¹ For what do they care for their household after them, when the number of their months is cut off in death?