Job 27:12

All this I have seen in my days of vanity: there is a righteous man who perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who lives long in his evildoing.

Do you intend to reprove words, since the speeches of one who is desperate are as wind?

Should your boastings make men hold their peace? When you mock, will no man make you ashamed?

They have gaped on me with their mouth. They have struck me on the cheek reproachfully. They gather themselves together against me.

The wise man’s eyes are in his head, and the fool walks in darkness—and yet I perceived that one event happens to them all.

For all this I laid to my heart, even to explore all this: that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God; whether it is love or hatred, man doesn’t know it; all is before them.

Now we call the proud happy; yes, those who work wickedness are built up; yes, they tempt God, and escape.’

I am like one who is a joke to his neighbor, I, who called on God, and he answered. The just, the blameless man is a joke.

“Should a wise man answer with vain knowledge, and fill himself with the east wind?

My friends scoff at me. My eyes pour out tears to God,

“Why do the wicked live, become old, yes, and grow mighty in power?

“Bear with me a little, and I will show you; for I still have something to say on God’s behalf.

For I was envious of the arrogant, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, “Why did you make me like this?”

Let heavier work be laid on the men, that they may labor in it. Don’t let them pay any attention to lying words.”

Then they sent to Jezebel, saying, “Naboth has been stoned, and is dead.”

In his days Pharaoh Necoh king of Egypt went up against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates; and king Josiah went against him; and Pharaoh Necoh killed him at Megiddo, when he had seen him.

So his servants took him out of the chariot, and put him in the second chariot that he had, and brought him to Jerusalem; and he died, and was buried in the tombs of his fathers. All Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah.

“How long will you speak these things? Shall the words of your mouth be a mighty wind?

“Shouldn’t the multitude of words be answered? Should a man full of talk be justified?

Oh that you would be completely silent! Then you would be wise.

Is it good that he should search you out? Or as one deceives a man, will you deceive him?

“Be silent! Leave me alone, that I may speak. Let come on me what will.

Why does your heart carry you away? Why do your eyes flash,

Shall vain words have an end? Or what provokes you that you answer?

Surely there are mockers with me. My eye dwells on their provocation.

I have heard the reproof which puts me to shame. The spirit of my understanding answers me.

Allow me, and I also will speak; After I have spoken, mock on.

I will speak, that I may be refreshed. I will open my lips and answer.

His soul will dwell at ease. His offspring will inherit the land.

He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.

Then I saw all the labor and achievement that is the envy of a man’s neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.

There is one who is alone, and he has neither son nor brother. There is no end to all of his labor, neither are his eyes satisfied with wealth. “For whom then, do I labor and deprive my soul of enjoyment?” This also is vanity. Yes, it is a miserable business.

There is a vanity which is done on the earth, that there are righteous men to whom it happens according to the work of the wicked. Again, there are wicked men to whom it happens according to the work of the righteous. I said that this also is vanity.

There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, the sort of error which proceeds from the ruler.

You are righteous, Yahweh, when I contend with you; yet I would like to reason the cause with you. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are they all at ease who deal very treacherously?

No one was able to answer him a word, neither did any man dare ask him any more questions from that day forward.

They were ridiculing him, knowing that she was dead.

whose mouths must be stopped: men who overthrow whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for dishonest gain’s sake.

and soundness of speech that can’t be condemned, that he who opposes you may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say about us.