Comment: Many people who are ungodly do not see the need to pray to God. This is because they feel they have gotten all that the heart could desire in terms of material possessions and children. Job in the passage for today questions what seems to be the inequities, that is, the lack of fairness or justice in the world. He states: “Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power? Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes. Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them. Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf. They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance. They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ. They spend their days in wealth …” (Job 21:7-14) But the point is that ultimately the righteous and the wicked get their just rewards from the Almighty. As regards the ignominious end of such godless people, the Bible states: “Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth, that the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment? Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds; yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung. . .” – Job 20:4-9