1. But Job answered and said,
2. Hear diligently my speech, and let this be instead of your consolations.
3. Suffer me that I may speak; and after I have spoken, mock on.
4. As for me, is my complaint to man? And if so, why should not my spirit be troubled?
5. Look upon me and be astonished and lay your hand upon your mouth.
6. Even I myself, when I remember, I am afraid, and trembling takes hold on my flesh.
7. Why do the wicked live and become old and even increase in riches?
8. Their seed is with them, established in their sight, and their offspring before their eyes.
9. Their houses are safe from fear; neither is the rod of God upon them.
10. Their cows conceive, and do not abort; their cows calve and do not cast forth their young.
11. They send forth their little ones like a flock of sheep, and their children dance.