021:003 Allow me, and I also will speak; After I have spoken, mock on. 021:004 As for me, is my complaint to man? Why shouldn't I be impatient? 021:005 Look at me, and be astonished. Lay your hand on your mouth. 021:006 When I remember, I am troubled. Horror takes hold of my flesh. 021:007 "Why do the wicked live, become old, yes, and grow mighty in power? 021:008 Their child is established with them in their sight, their offspring before their eyes. 021:009 Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them. 021:010 Their bulls breed without fail. Their cows calve, and don't miscarry. 021:011 They send forth their little ones like a flock. Their children dance. 021:012 They sing to the tambourine and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the pipe. 021:013 They spend their days in prosperity. In an instant they go down to Sheol. 021:014 They tell God, 'Depart from us, for we don't want to know about your ways. 021:015 What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What profit should we have, if we pray to him?' 021:016 Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand. The counsel of the wicked is far from me. 021:017 "How often is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out, that their calamity comes on them, that God distributes sorrows in his anger? 021:018 How often is it that they are as stubble before the wind, as chaff that the storm carries away? 021:019 You say, 'God lays up his iniquity for his children.' Let him recompense it to himself, that he may know it. 021:020 Let his own eyes see his destruction. Let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty. 021:021 For what does he care for his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off? 021:022 "Shall any teach God knowledge, seeing he judges those who are high? 021:023 One dies in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet. 021:024 His pails are full of milk. The marrow of his bones is moistened. 021:025 Another dies in bitterness of soul, and never tastes of good. 021:026 They lie down alike in the dust. The worm covers them. 021:027 "Behold, I know your thoughts, the devices with which you would wrong me. 021:028 For you say, 'Where is the house of the prince? Where is the tent in which the wicked lived?' 021:029 Haven't you asked wayfaring men? Don't you know their evidences, 021:030 that the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity, That they are led forth to the day of wrath? 021:031 Who shall declare his way to his face? Who shall repay him what he has done? 021:032 Yet he will be borne to the grave. Men shall keep watch over the tomb. 021:033 The clods of the valley shall be sweet to him. All men shall draw after him, as there were innumerable before him. 021:034 So how can you comfort me with nonsense, seeing that in your