Job: God Will Punish the Wicked
Then Job answered:
“Listen carefully to my words; Heb 2:1Isa 55:2Jdg 9:7Job 13:3-4Job 15:11Job 16:2Job 18:2Job 33:1
let this be your consolation to me.
Bear with me while I speak; Job 16:10Job 17:2Job 16:20Job 12:4-5Job 13:13Job 13:9Job 33:31-33
then, after I have spoken, you may go on mocking.
Is my complaint against a man? Psa 102:1Psa 142:2-3Psa 42:111Sa 1:162Ki 6:26-27Exo 6:9Job 10:1-2Job 6:11
Then why should I not be impatient?
Look at me and be appalled; Jdg 18:19Job 29:9Job 40:4Pro 30:32Amo 5:13Job 17:8Job 19:20-21Job 2:12
put your hand over your mouth.
When I remember, terror takes hold, Hab 3:16Lam 3:19-20Psa 119:120Psa 77:3Psa 88:15
and my body trembles in horror.
Why do the wicked live on, Psa 73:3-12Job 12:6Jer 12:1-3Psa 37:35Hab 1:13Psa 17:10Dan 4:17Hab 1:15-16
growing old and increasing in power?
Their descendants are established around them, Pro 17:6Job 18:19Job 20:10Job 20:28Job 5:3-4Psa 17:14
and their offspring before their eyes.
Their homes are safe from fear; Job 9:34Psa 73:5Isa 57:19-21Job 15:21Job 18:11Psa 73:19
no rod of punishment from God is upon them.
Their bulls breed without fail; Exo 23:26Deu 28:11Deu 7:13-14Ecc 9:1-2Luk 12:16-21Luk 16:19Psa 144:13-14
their cows bear calves and do not miscarry.
They send forth their little ones like a flock; Psa 107:41Psa 127:3-5
their children skip about,
singing to the tambourine and lyre Amo 6:4-6Gen 4:21Isa 5:12Gen 31:27Isa 22:13
and making merry at the sound of the flute.
They spend their days in prosperity Job 36:11Luk 12:19-20Luk 17:28-29Mat 24:38-39Psa 73:4
and go down to Sheol in peace. 1
Yet they say to God: ‘Leave us alone! Job 22:17Rom 8:72Th 2:10-12Psa 10:42Ti 4:3-4Jhn 15:23-24Jhn 3:19-20Pro 1:29
For we have no desire to know Your ways.
Who is the Almighty, that we should serve Him, Exo 5:2Job 34:9Mal 1:13-14Isa 30:11Pro 30:9Psa 12:4Hos 13:6Isa 45:19
and what would we gain if we pray to Him?’
Still, their prosperity is not in their own hands, Job 22:18Psa 1:1Gen 49:6Pro 1:10Psa 49:6-7Psa 52:5-7Ecc 8:8Job 1:21
so I stay far from the counsel of the wicked.
How often is the lamp of the wicked put out? Job 18:5-6Pro 13:9Pro 20:20Job 18:18Luk 12:46Mat 25:8Pro 24:20Psa 32:10
Does disaster come upon them?
Does God, in His anger, apportion destruction?
Are they like straw before the wind, Psa 1:4Psa 83:13Job 13:25Psa 35:5Isa 17:13Isa 29:5Jer 13:24Exo 15:7
like chaff swept away by a storm?
It is said that God lays up one’s punishment for his children. Exo 20:5Ezk 18:19-20Ezk 18:2Isa 14:21Isa 53:4-6Jer 31:292Co 5:212Ti 4:14
Let God repay the man himself, so he will know it.
Let his eyes see his own destruction; Isa 51:17Psa 75:8Rev 14:10Jer 25:15-16Jer 51:7Job 27:19Luk 16:23Psa 60:3
let him drink for himself the wrath of the Almighty.
For what does he care about his household after him, Job 14:5Ecc 2:18-19Job 14:21Luk 16:27-28Psa 102:24Psa 55:23
when the number of his months has run out?
Can anyone teach knowledge to God, Rom 11:341Co 2:16Isa 40:13-141Co 6:32Pe 2:4Ecc 5:8Isa 40:22-23Isa 45:9
since He judges those on high?
One man dies full of vigor, Job 20:22-23Luk 12:19-21Psa 49:17Psa 73:4-5
completely secure and at ease.
His body is well nourished, 2 Pro 3:8Job 15:27Psa 17:10
and his bones are rich with marrow.
Yet another man dies in the bitterness of his soul, Ezk 4:16-17Job 7:111Ki 17:122Sa 17:8Ecc 6:2Ezk 12:18Isa 38:15-17Job 10:1
having never tasted prosperity.
But together they lie down in the dust, Ecc 9:2Isa 14:11Job 20:11Job 3:18-19Job 17:14Job 19:26Job 24:20Psa 49:14
and worms cover them both.
Behold, I know your thoughts full well, Luk 5:22Psa 119:861Pe 2:19Job 15:20-35Job 20:29Job 20:5Job 32:3Job 4:8-11
the schemes by which you would wrong me.
For you say, ‘Where now is the nobleman’s house, Job 20:7Job 8:22Hab 2:9-11Job 1:3Job 31:37Num 16:26-34Psa 37:36Psa 52:5-6
and where are the tents in which the wicked dwell?’
Have you never asked those who travel the roads? Psa 129:8
Do you not accept their reports?
Indeed, the evil man is spared from the day of calamity, Pro 16:42Pe 2:9-172Pe 3:7Job 20:28Rom 2:5Jud 1:13Nam 1:2Pro 11:4
delivered from the day of wrath.
Who denounces his behavior to his face? Deu 7:10Gal 2:11Rom 12:191Ki 21:19-242Sa 12:7-12Act 24:25Isa 59:13Jas 2:13
Who repays him for what he has done?
He is carried to the grave, Luk 16:22Ezk 32:21-32Psa 49:14
and watch is kept over his tomb.
The clods of the valley are sweet to him; Heb 9:27Job 24:24Job 30:23Ecc 1:4Ecc 12:7Ecc 8:8Gen 3:19Job 17:16
everyone follows behind him,
and those before him are without number.
So how can you comfort me with empty words? Job 16:2Job 13:4Job 32:3Job 42:7
For your answers remain full of falsehood.”