Job 21:2-12

2 "Listen carefully to my words, and let this be your consolation.
3 Bear with me, and I will speak; then after 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 appalled, and lay your hand upon your mouth.
6 When I think of it I am dismayed, and shuddering seizes my flesh.
7 Why do the wicked live on, reach old age, and grow mighty in power?
8 Their children are established in their presence, and their offspring before their eyes.
9 Their houses are safe from fear, and no rod of God is upon them.
10 Their bull breeds without fail; their cow calves and never miscarries.
11 They send out their little ones like a flock, and their children dance around.
12 They sing to the tambourine and the lyre, and rejoice to the sound of the pipe.
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