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Job’s Discourse on the Wicked
Then Job answered and said:
Then Job answered and said:
Job: God will Deal with the Wicked
But Job answered and said,
But Job answered and said,
Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations.
Bear with me that I may speak,
And after I have spoken, keep mocking.
And after I have spoken, keep mocking.
Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on.
“As for me, is my complaint against man?
And if it were, why should I not be impatient?
And if it were, why should I not be impatient?
As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled?
Look at me and be astonished;
Put your hand over your mouth.
Put your hand over your mouth.
Mark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth.
Even when I remember I am terrified,
And trembling takes hold of my flesh.
And trembling takes hold of my flesh.
Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh.
Why do the wicked live and become old,
Yes, become mighty in power?
Yes, become mighty in power?
Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?
Their descendants are established with them in their sight,
And their offspring before their eyes.
And their offspring before their eyes.
Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes.
Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them.
Their bull breeds without failure;
Their cow calves without miscarriage.
Their cow calves without miscarriage.
Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf.
They send forth their little ones like a flock,
And their children dance.
And their children dance.
They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.
They sing to the tambourine and harp,
And rejoice to the sound of the flute.
And rejoice to the sound of the flute.
They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ.
They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.
Yet they say to God, ‘Depart from us,
For we do not desire the knowledge of Your ways.
For we do not desire the knowledge of Your ways.
Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.
Who is the Almighty, that we should serve Him?
And what profit do we have if we pray to Him?’
And what profit do we have if we pray to Him?’
What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?
Lo, their good is not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
“How often is the lamp of the wicked put out?
How often does their destruction come upon them,
The sorrows God distributes in His anger?
How often does their destruction come upon them,
The sorrows God distributes in His anger?
How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and how oft cometh their destruction upon them! God distributeth sorrows in his anger.
They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.
God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know it.
Let his eyes see his destruction,
And let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
And let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
For what does he care about his household after him,
When the number of his months is cut in half?
When the number of his months is cut in half?
For what pleasure hath he in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off in the midst?
“Can anyone teach God knowledge,
Since He judges those on high?
Since He judges those on high?
Shall any teach God knowledge? seeing he judgeth those that are high.
One dies in his full strength,
Being wholly at ease and secure;
Being wholly at ease and secure;
One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.
His breasts are full of milk, and his bones are moistened with marrow.
Another man dies in the bitterness of his soul,
Never having eaten with pleasure.
Never having eaten with pleasure.
And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never eateth with pleasure.
They lie down alike in the dust,
And worms cover them.
And worms cover them.
They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them.
“Look, I know your thoughts,
And the schemes with which you would wrong me.
And the schemes with which you would wrong me.
Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me.
For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked?
Have you not asked those who travel the road?
And do you not know their signs?
And do you not know their signs?
Have ye not asked them that go by the way? and do ye not know their tokens,
For the wicked are reserved for the day of doom;
They shall be brought out on the day of wrath.
They shall be brought out on the day of wrath.
That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.
Who condemns his way to his face?
And who repays him for what he has done?
And who repays him for what he has done?
Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him what he hath done?
Yet he shall be brought to the grave,
And a vigil kept over the tomb.
And a vigil kept over the tomb.
Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb.
The clods of the valley shall be sweet to him;
Everyone shall follow him,
As countless have gone before him.
Everyone shall follow him,
As countless have gone before him.
The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, and every man shall draw after him, as there are innumerable before him.