VIN(i)
1 To this Job replied,
2 "Listen carefully to my words, and let this be your consolation.
3 Bear with me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on.
4 "As for me, is my complaint addressed to mortals? Why should I not be impatient?
5 Look at me, and be astonished. Lay your hand on your mouth.
6 "When I think of it I am dismayed, and trembling seizes my flesh.
7 Why do the wicked live? They grow old, and become mighty in power.
8 Their children are ever with them, and their offspring before their eyes.
9 Their houses are safe without fear, and the rod of God is not upon them.
10 Their bulls breed without fail. Their cows calve, and do not miscarry.
11 They send forth their children by flocks, and their sons lead the dance.
12 They sing to the tambourine and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the flute.
13 They spend their days in prosperity, and in a moment they go down to Sheol
14 "They say to God: 'Leave us alone! We do not desire to know your ways.'
15 "Who is the Almighty that we should serve him? And what do we gain if we pray to him?
16 Lo, their prosperity is not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me
17 How often is the lamp of the wicked put out, and their calamity comes on them! He shares out pangs in His anger;
18 "How often are they like straw before the wind, and like chaff that the storm carries away?
19 [Ye say], God lays up his iniquity for his sons. Let him recompense it to himself that he may know it.
20 Let his own eyes see his destruction. Let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
21 For what does he care for his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off?
22 Can anyone teach knowledge to God, since he himself judges high ones?
23 One dies in his full strength, wholly secure and at ease;
24 His sides are full of milk, his bones are wet with marrow.
25 Another dieth with bitterness of soul, having never tasted any thing good.
26 They lie together in the soil, And worms cover them both.
27 "Look, I know your thoughts, the devices with which you would wrong me.
28 You ask, 'Where is the noble person's house?' and 'Where are the tents where the wicked live?'
29 Have ye not asked the wayfarers? and do ye not regard their tokens:
30 that the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity, that they are led forth to the day of wrath?
31 Who denounces his way to his face? And who repays him for what he has done?
32 Yet is he carried to the graves, and watch is kept over the tomb.
33 The clods of the valley will be sweet to him. All men will draw after him, as there were innumerable before him.
34 How then, can you console me so worthlessly? What is left of your answers is treachery."