^{27 Ref} See, I am conscious of your thoughts, and of your violent purposes against me;

^{28 Ref} For you say, Where is the house of the ruler, and where is the tent of the evil-doer?

^{29 Ref} Have you not put the question to the travellers, and do you not take note of their experience?

^{30 Ref} How the evil man goes free in the day of trouble, and has salvation in the day of wrath?

^{31 Ref} Who will make his way clear to his face? and if he has done a thing, who gives him punishment for it?

^{32 Ref} He is taken to his last resting-place, and keeps watch over it.

^{33 Ref} The earth of the valley covering his bones is sweet to him, and all men come after him, as there were unnumbered before him.

^{34 Ref} Why then do you give me comfort with words in which there is no profit, when you see that there is nothing in your answers but deceit?