Look at me and be astonished;
(A)Put your hand over your mouth.
Even when I remember I am terrified,
And trembling takes hold of my flesh.
(B)Why do the wicked live and become old,
Yes, become mighty in power?
Their descendants are established with them in their sight,
And their offspring before their eyes.
Their houses are safe from fear,
(C)Neither is [a]the rod of God upon them.
10 Their bull breeds without failure;
Their cow calves (D)without miscarriage.
11 They send forth their little ones like a flock,
And their children dance.
12 They sing to the tambourine and harp,
And rejoice to the sound of the flute.
13 They (E)spend their days in wealth,
And [b]in a moment go down to the [c]grave.
14 (F)Yet they say to God, ‘Depart from us,
For we do not desire the knowledge of Your ways.
15 (G)Who is the Almighty, that we should serve Him?
And (H)what profit do we have if we pray to Him?’
16 Indeed [d]their prosperity is not in their hand;
(I)The counsel of the wicked is far from me.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 21:9 The rod of God’s chastisement
  2. Job 21:13 Without lingering
  3. Job 21:13 Or Sheol
  4. Job 21:16 Lit. their goal

Jeremiah’s Question

12 Righteous (A)are You, O Lord, when I plead with You;
Yet let me talk with You about Your judgments.
(B)Why does the way of the wicked prosper?
Why are those happy who deal so treacherously?

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