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Job 21:5-15

5 Look at me. Isn't that enough to make you stare in shocked silence?

5 Look at me and be appalled; clap your hand over your mouth.

6 When I think of what has happened to me, I am stunned, and I tremble and shake.

6 When I think about this, I am terrified; trembling seizes my body.

7 Why does God let evil people live, let them grow old and prosper?

7 Why do the wicked live on, growing old and increasing in power?

8 They have children and grandchildren, and live to watch them all grow up.

8 They see their children established around them, their offspring before their eyes.

9 God does not bring disaster on their homes; they never have to live in terror.

9 Their homes are safe and free from fear; the rod of God is not on them.

10 Yes, all their cattle breed and give birth without trouble.

10 Their bulls never fail to breed; their cows calve and do not miscarry.

11 Their children run and play like lambs

11 They send forth their children as a flock; their little ones dance about.

12 and dance to the music of harps and flutes.

12 They sing to the music of timbrel and lyre; they make merry to the sound of the pipe.

13 They live out their lives in peace and quietly die without suffering.

13 They spend their years in prosperity and go down to the grave in peace.

14 The wicked tell God to leave them alone; they don't want to know his will for their lives.

14 Yet they say to God, ‘Leave us alone! We have no desire to know your ways.

15 They think there is no need to serve God nor any advantage in praying to him.

15 Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What would we gain by praying to him?’