1. Then Job answered:
2. “Listen carefully to my words;let this be the consolation you offer me.
3. Bear with me and I will speak,and after I have spoken you may mock.
4. Is my complaint against a man?If so, why should I not be impatient?
5. Look at me and be appalled;put your hands over your mouths.
6. For, when I think about this, I am terrifiedand my body feels a shudder.
7. “Why do the wicked go on living,grow old, even increase in power?