Job 21:1-12
English Standard Version
Chapter 21
1Then Job answered and said:
2 "Keep listening to my words, and let this be your comfort.
3Bear with me, and I will speak, and after I have spoken, mock on.
4As for me, is my complaint against man? Why should I not be impatient?
5Look at me and be appalled, and lay your hand over your mouth.
6When I remember, I am dismayed, and shuddering seizes my flesh.
7 Why do the wicked live, reach old age, and grow mighty in power?
8Their offspring are established in their presence, and their descendants before their eyes.
9Their houses are safe from fear, and no rod of God is upon them.
10Their bull breeds without fail; their cow calves and does not miscarry.
11They send out their little boys like a flock, and their children dance.
12They sing to the tambourine and the lyre and rejoice to the sound of the pipe.
