Job 21:17-34

17“Yet how often is the lamp of the wicked snuffed out? How often does calamity come upon them, the fate God allots in his anger? 18How often are they like straw before the wind, like chaff swept away by a gale? 19It is said, ‘God stores up the punishment of the wicked for their children.’ Let him repay the wicked, so that they themselves will experience it! 20Let their own eyes see their destruction; let them drink the cup of the wrath of the Almighty. 21For what do they care about the families they leave behind when their allotted months come to an end? 22“Can anyone teach knowledge to God, since he judges even the highest? 23One person dies in full vigor, completely secure and at ease, 24well nourished in body, bones rich with marrow. 25Another dies in bitterness of soul, never having enjoyed anything good. 26Side by side they lie in the dust, and worms cover them both. 27“I know full well what you are thinking, the schemes by which you would wrong me. 28You say, ‘Where now is the house of the great, the tents where the wicked lived?’ 29Have you never questioned those who travel? Have you paid no regard to their accounts— 30that the wicked are spared from the day of calamity, that they are delivered from the day of wrath? 31Who denounces their conduct to their face? Who repays them for what they have done? 32They are carried to the grave, and watch is kept over their tombs. 33The soil in the valley is sweet to them; everyone follows after them, and a countless throng goes before them. 34“So how can you console me with your nonsense? Nothing is left of your answers but falsehood!”