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Job 21

Are they not masters of their fortunes?

Does God concern himself with what they scheme?

How often does he extinguish evil men?

Tell me how often calamity befalls them!

How often does God rack them in his anger?

How often are they mere straws before the wind,

chaff swept before the storm?

‘God,’ you say, ‘punishes the children for it’?

Better he made the men themselves feel punishment!

The evil man should witness his own ruin,

and drink the Almighty’s anger for himself.

What interest has he in his family,

once his own span of life is snapped?

Does God draw any difference between men?

In high heaven is he governing this world?

Why, one man dies, robust and hale,

in full peace and prosperity;

his powers are full and fresh,

his health is sound.

Another man dies, brokenhearted,

and never gets the good of life.

Both lie down in the dust together,

and worms swarm over both of them.

I know what you are thinking,

I know the cruel wrong you do me.

Why offer me your idle consolations,

when all you urge is false?

‘What of the tyrant’s house?’ you ask,

‘where are the dwellings of evil men?’

Well, talk to travellers,

learn what they have to tell:

of how an evil man is spared calamity,

how he goes scatheless from the wrath of God.

Who ever tells him plainly what 31 he is?

Who ever punishes him for his misdeeds?

No, he is carried to a stately grave,

and all men follow his great funeral;

quiet he lies amid the clods,

and well his tomb is cared for.”