Why do the wicked live on, growing old and
increasing in power?
They see their children established around
them, their offspring before their eyes.
Their homes are safe and free from fear;
the rod of God is not upon them.
Job 21:7-9
Yet they say to God, ‘Leave us alone! We
have no desire to know your ways.
Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him?
What would we gain by praying to him?’
But their prosperity is not in their own hands,
so I stand aloof from the counsel of the
wicked.
“Yet how often is the lamp of the wicked
snuffed out? How often does calamity come
upon them, the fate God allots in his anger?
How often are they like straw before the wind,
like chaff swept away by a gale? It is
said,’God stores up a man’s punishment for
his sons.’ Let him repay the man himself,
so that he will know it!
Let his own eyes see his destruction;
let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
For what does he care about the family he
leaves behind when his allotted months come to an end?”
Job 21: 14-21