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1 - Then Job answered, and said:

2 - Hear, I beseech you, my words, and do penance.

3 - Suffer me, and I will speak, and after, if you please, laugh at my words.

4 - Is my debate against man, that I should not have just reason to be troubled?

5 - Hearken to me and be astonished, and lay your finger on your mouth.

6 - As for me, when I remember, I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh.

7 - Why then do the wicked live, are they advanced, and strengthened with riches?

8 - Their seed continueth before them, a multitude of kinsmen, and of children's children in their sight.

9 - Their houses are secure and peaceable, and the rod of God is not upon them.

10 - Their cattle have conceived, and failed not: their cow has calved, and is not deprived of her fruit.

11 - Their little ones go out like a flock, and their children dance and play.

12 - They take the timbrel, and the harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ.

13 - They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment they go down to hell.

14 - Who have said to God: Depart from us, we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.

15 - Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what doth it profit us if we pray to him?

16 - Yet because their good things are not in their hand, may the counsel of the wicked be far from me.

17 - How often shall the lamp of the wicked be put out, and a deluge come upon them, and he shall distribute the sorrows of his wrath?

18 - They shall be as chaff before the face of the wind, and as ashes which the whirlwind scattereth.

19 - God shall lay up the sorrow of the father for his children: and when he shall repay, then shall he know.

20 - His eyes shall see his own destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty.

21 - For what is it to him what befalleth his house after him: and if the number of his months be diminished by one half?

22 - Shall any one teach God knowledge, who judgeth those that are high?

23 - One man dieth strong, and hale, rich and happy.

24 - His bowels are full of fat, and his bones are moistened with marrow.

25 - But another dieth in bitterness of soul without any riches:

26 - And yet they shall sleep together in the dust, and worms shall cover them.

27 - Surely I know your thoughts, and your unjust judgments against me.

28 - For you say: Where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked?

29 - Ask any one of them that go by the way, and you shall perceive that he knoweth these same things.

30 - Because the wicked man is reserved to the day of destruction, and he shall be brought to the day of wrath.

31 - Who shall reprove his way to his face? and who shall repay him what he hath done?

32 - He shall be brought to the graves, and shall watch in the heap of the dead.

33 - He hath been acceptable to the gravel of Cocytus, and he shall draw every man after him, and there are innumerable before him.

34 - How then do ye comfort me in vain, whereas your answer is shewn to be repugnant to truth?