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21 Then Job answered and said:
2 Hear now my word with attention:
Your consolation be this.
3 Suffer me, for I would speak also:
Then, when I have spoken, mock on.
4 Is it man that I would complain of?
And why should I not be impatient?
5 Now listen to me; and, in horror,
Lay ye your hand on your mouth.
6 When I think of it, I am confounded,
And shuddering seizeth my flesh.
7 Why are wicked men suffered to live,
To grow old and wax mighty in power?
8 Their seed is established before them,
Their offspring in sight of their eyes.
9 Their homes are strangers to terror;
No rod of God is on them.
10 Their bull doth unfailingly gender,
Their cow never loses her calf.
11 Like a flock they send their young children;
Their boys and their girls dance.
12 They sing to the timbrel and lyre;
At the sound of the pipe they make merry.
13 They finish their days in prosperity,
And go down to Sheol in peace–
14 Though they said unto God, "O leave us,
We desire not to know Thy ways.
15 Why should we serve the Almighty?
And what is the good of prayer?"
16 See! their fortune is in their own hand:
Nought He cares for the schemes of the wicked.
17 How oft is the lamp of the wicked put out?
How oft does disaster assail them,
Or the pains of His anger lay hold of them?
18 How often are they as as the straw before wind,
Or like chaff that is stolen by the storm?
19 "God stores up his guilt for his children."
("Nay," I reply); "let Him punish
The man himself, that he feel it.
20 Let his own eyes behold his disaster,
Let him drink the wrath of Almighty.
21 For what doth he care for his house,
When his own tale of months is cut short?"
22 Will any teach knowledge to God,
Seeing He judgeth (angels) on high?
23 One dies with his strength unimpaired,
In the heyday of ease and prosperity;
24 Filled are his buckets with milk;
His bones at the marrow are moistened.
25 And one dies with soul embittered,
With never a taste of good.
26 In the dust they lie down together;
The worm covers them both.
Behold! I know your Thoughts
And your cruel devices against me,
28 In askng, "Where lives now the tyrant?
Where now doth the godless dwell?"
29 Have ye never asked those that travel?
Have ye never noted their proofs
30 That the wicked is kept from disaster,
Is saved in the day of wrath?
31 Who tells him his way to his face,
Or requites him for what he hath done?
32 And yet he is borne to the grave,
And men keep watch over his tomb.
33 Sweet for him are the clods of the valley,
And after him all men draw.
34 Why then offer your idle comfort?
Your answers leave nothing but falsehood
ACT III
Eliphaz’s Cruel and Baseless Charges
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