1Then Job answered, 2"Listen diligently to my speech. 3Allow me, and I also will speak; 4As for me, is my complaint to man? 5Look at me, and be astonished. 6When I remember, I am troubled. 7"Why do the wicked live, 8Their child is established with them in their sight, 9Their houses are safe from fear, 10Their bulls breed without fail. 11They send forth their little ones like a flock. 12They sing to the tambourine and harp, 13They spend their days in prosperity. 14They tell God, 'Depart from us, 15What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? 16Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand. 17"How often is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out, 18How often is it that they are as stubble before the wind, 19You say, 'God lays up his iniquity for his children.' 20Let his own eyes see his destruction. 21For what does he care for his house after him, 22"Shall any teach God knowledge, 23One dies in his full strength, 24His pails are full of milk. 25Another dies in bitterness of soul, 26They lie down alike in the dust. 27"Behold, I know your thoughts, 28For you say, 'Where is the house of the prince? 29Haven't you asked wayfaring men? 30that the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity, 31Who shall declare his way to his face? 32Yet he will be borne to the grave. 33The clods of the valley shall be sweet to him. 34So how can you comfort me with nonsense,