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Job 21:7-16

7 Why do the wicked live, grow old, and even become strong?

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

8 Their children are always with them, their offspring in their sight,

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

9 their houses safe from dread, God's punishing stick not upon them.

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

10 Their bull always breeds successfully; their cows give birth and never miscarry.

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

11 They send forth their little ones like sheep; their infants bounce around.

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

12 They raise drum and lyre, rejoice at the sound of a flute.

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

13 They spend their days contentedly, go down to the grave peacefully.

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

14 They say to God, "Turn away from us; we take no pleasure in knowing your ways;

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

15 who is the Almighty that we should serve him, and what can we gain if we meet him?"

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

16 Look, isn't their well-being the work of their own hands? A sinner's logic is beyond me.

16 But their prosperity is not in their own hands, so I stand aloof from the plans of the wicked.