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.