Then Job answered,
“Listen diligently to my speech. Heb 2:1Isa 55:2Jdg 9:7Job 13:3-4Job 15:11Job 16:2Job 18:2Job 33:1
Let this be your consolation.
Allow me, and I also will speak. Job 16:10Job 17:2Job 16:20Job 12:4-5Job 13:13Job 13:9Job 33:31-33
After I have spoken, mock on.
As for me, is my complaint to man? Psa 102:1Psa 142:2-3Psa 42:111Sa 1:162Ki 6:26-27Exo 6:9Job 10:1-2Job 6:11
Why shouldn’t I be impatient?
Look at me, and be astonished. Jdg 18:19Job 29:9Job 40:4Pro 30:32Amo 5:13Job 17:8Job 19:20-21Job 2:12
Lay your hand on your mouth.
When I remember, I am troubled. Hab 3:16Lam 3:19-20Psa 119:120Psa 77:3Psa 88:15
Horror takes hold of my flesh.
“Why do the wicked live, Psa 73:3-12Job 12:6Jer 12:1-3Psa 37:35Hab 1:13Psa 17:10Dan 4:17Hab 1:15-16
become old, yes, and grow mighty in power?
Their child is established with them in their sight, Pro 17:6Job 18:19Job 20:10Job 20:28Job 5:3-4Psa 17:14
their offspring before their eyes.
Their houses are safe from fear, Job 9:34Psa 73:5Isa 57:19-21Job 15:21Job 18:11Psa 73:19
neither is the rod of God 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 calve, and don’t miscarry.
They send out their little ones like a flock. Psa 107:41Psa 127:3-5
Their children dance.
They sing to the tambourine and harp, Amo 6:4-6Gen 4:21Isa 5:12Gen 31:27Isa 22:13
and rejoice at the sound of the pipe.
They spend their days in prosperity. Job 36:11Luk 12:19-20Luk 17:28-29Mat 24:38-39Psa 73:4
In an instant they go down to Sheol. 1
They tell God, ‘Depart from us, Job 22:17Rom 8:72Th 2:10-12Psa 10:42Ti 4:3-4Jhn 15:23-24Jhn 3:19-20Pro 1:29
for we don’t want to know about your ways.
What 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
What profit should we have, if we pray to him?’
Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand. Job 22:18Psa 1:1Gen 49:6Pro 1:10Psa 49:6-7Psa 52:5-7Ecc 8:8Job 1:21
The counsel of the wicked is far from me.
“How often is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out, Job 18:5-6Pro 13:9Pro 20:20Job 18:18Luk 12:46Mat 25:8Pro 24:20Psa 32:10
that their calamity comes on them,
that God distributes sorrows in his anger?
How often is it that they are as stubble before the wind, Psa 1:4Psa 83:13Job 13:25Psa 35:5Isa 17:13Isa 29:5Jer 13:24Exo 15:7
as chaff that the storm carries away?
You say, ‘God lays up his iniquity for his children.’ Exo 20:5Ezk 18:19-20Ezk 18:2Isa 14:21Isa 53:4-6Jer 31:292Co 5:212Ti 4:14
Let him recompense it to himself, that he may know it.
Let his own eyes see his destruction. Isa 51:17Psa 75:8Rev 14:10Jer 25:15-16Jer 51:7Job 27:19Luk 16:23Psa 60:3
Let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
For what does he care for his house after him, Job 14:5Ecc 2:18-19Job 14:21Luk 16:27-28Psa 102:24Psa 55:23
when the number of his months is cut off?
“Shall any teach God knowledge, Rom 11:341Co 2:16Isa 40:13-141Co 6:32Pe 2:4Ecc 5:8Isa 40:22-23Isa 45:9
since he judges those who are high?
One dies in his full strength, Job 20:22-23Luk 12:19-21Psa 49:17Psa 73:4-5
being wholly at ease and quiet.
His pails are full of milk. Pro 3:8Job 15:27Psa 17:10
The marrow of his bones is moistened.
Another dies in bitterness of soul, Ezk 4:16-17Job 7:111Ki 17:122Sa 17:8Ecc 6:2Ezk 12:18Isa 38:15-17Job 10:1
and never tastes of good.
They lie down alike in the dust. Ecc 9:2Isa 14:11Job 20:11Job 3:18-19Job 17:14Job 19:26Job 24:20Psa 49:14
The worm covers them.
“Behold, I know your thoughts, Luk 5:22Psa 119:861Pe 2:19Job 15:20-35Job 20:29Job 20:5Job 32:3Job 4:8-11
the plans with which you would wrong me.
For you say, ‘Where is the house of the prince? Job 20:7Job 8:22Hab 2:9-11Job 1:3Job 31:37Num 16:26-34Psa 37:36Psa 52:5-6
Where is the tent in which the wicked lived?’
Haven’t you asked wayfaring men? Psa 129:8
Don’t you know their evidences,
that the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity, Pro 16:42Pe 2:9-172Pe 3:7Job 20:28Rom 2:5Jud 1:13Nam 1:2Pro 11:4
that they are led out to the day of wrath?
Who will declare his way to his face? Deu 7:10Gal 2:11Rom 12:191Ki 21:19-242Sa 12:7-12Act 24:25Isa 59:13Jas 2:13
Who will repay him what he has done?
Yet he will be borne to the grave. Luk 16:22Ezk 32:21-32Psa 49:14
Men will keep watch over the tomb.
The clods of the valley will be sweet to him. Heb 9:27Job 24:24Job 30:23Ecc 1:4Ecc 12:7Ecc 8:8Gen 3:19Job 17:16
All men will draw after him,
as there were innumerable before him.
So how can you comfort me with nonsense, Job 16:2Job 13:4Job 32:3Job 42:7
because in your answers there remains only falsehood?”