Job 21:27

²²But Jesus, perceiving their thoughts, answered them, “Why are you reasoning so in your hearts?

⁸⁶All of your commandments are faithful. They persecute me wrongfully. Help me!

⁴I have done no wrong, yet they are ready to attack me. Rise up, behold, and help me!

⁵that the triumphing of the wicked is short, the joy of the godless but for a moment?

²⁹This is the portion of a wicked man from God, the heritage appointed to him by God.”

³I have seen the foolish taking root, but suddenly I cursed his habitation. ⁴His children are far from safety. They are crushed in the gate. Neither is there any to deliver them, ⁵whose harvest the hungry eat up, and take it even out of the thorns. The snare gapes for their substance.

⁸According to what I have seen, those who plow iniquity and sow trouble, reap the same. ⁹By the breath of God they perish. By the blast of his anger are they consumed. ¹⁰The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, the teeth of the young lions, are broken. ¹¹The old lion perishes for lack of prey. The cubs of the lioness are scattered abroad.

²⁰the wicked man writhes in pain all his days, even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor. ²¹A sound of terrors is in his ears. In prosperity the destroyer will come on him. ²²He doesn’t believe that he will return out of darkness. He is waited for by the sword. ²³He wanders abroad for bread, saying, ‘Where is it?’ He knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand. ²⁴Distress and anguish make him afraid. They prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle. ²⁵Because he has stretched out his hand against God, and behaves himself proudly against the Almighty, ²⁶he runs at him with a stiff neck, with the thick shields of his bucklers, ²⁷because he has covered his face with his fatness, and gathered fat on his thighs. ²⁸He has lived in desolate cities, in houses which no one inhabited, which were ready to become heaps. ²⁹He will not be rich, neither will his substance continue, neither will their possessions be extended on the earth. ³⁰He will not depart out of darkness. The flame will dry up his branches. He will go away by the breath of God’s mouth. ³¹Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself, for emptiness will be his reward. ³²It will be accomplished before his time. His branch will not be green. ³³He will shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and will cast off his flower as the olive tree. ³⁴For the company of the godless will be barren, and fire will consume the tents of bribery. ³⁵They conceive mischief and produce iniquity. Their heart prepares deceit.”

³Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert righteousness? ⁴If your children have sinned against him, he has delivered them into the hand of their disobedience. ⁵If you want to seek God diligently, make your supplication to the Almighty. ⁶If you were pure and upright, surely now he would awaken for you, and make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous.

¹⁹For it is commendable if someone endures pain, suffering unjustly, because of conscience toward God.