Giobbe 21:7-17

⁷Wherefore do the wicked live? They have become old, Yea, they have been mighty in wealth.a

⁸Their seed is established, Before their face with them, And their offspring before their eyes.

⁹Their houses [are] peace without fear, Nor [is] a rod of God upon them.

¹⁰His bullock hath eaten corn, and doth not loath. His cow bringeth forth safely, And doth not miscarry.

¹¹They send forth as a flock their sucklings, And their children skip,

¹²They lift [themselves] up at timbrel and harp, And rejoice at the sound of an organ.

¹³They wear out in good their days, And in a moment [to] Sheol go down.

¹⁴And they say to God, 'Turn aside from us, And the knowledge of Thy ways We have not desired.

¹⁵What [is] the Mighty One that we serve Him? And what do we profit when we meet with Him?'b

¹⁶Lo, not in their hand [is] their good, (The counsel of the wicked Hath been far from me.)

¹⁷How oft is the lamp of the wicked extinguished, And come on them doth their calamity? Pangs He apportioneth in His anger.