^{17 Ref} "How often is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out? That their calamity comes on them? That God distributes sorrows in his anger?

^{18 Ref} That they are as stubble before the wind, As chaff that the storm carries away?

^{19 Ref} You say, 'God lays up his iniquity for his children.' Let him recompense it to himself, that he may know it.

^{20 Ref} Let his own eyes see his destruction. Let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.

^{21 Ref} For what does he care for his house after him, When the number of his months is cut off?

^{22 Ref} "Shall any teach God knowledge, Seeing he judges those who are high?

^{23 Ref} One dies in his full strength, Being wholly at ease and quiet.

^{24 Ref} His pails are full of milk. The marrow of his bones is moistened.

^{25 Ref} Another dies in bitterness of soul, And never tastes of good.

^{26 Ref} They lie down alike in the dust, The worm covers them.

^{27 Ref} "Behold, I know your thoughts, The devices with which you would wrong me.

^{28 Ref} For you say, 'Where is the house of the prince? Where is the tent in which the wicked lived?'

^{29 Ref} Haven't you asked wayfaring men? Don't you know their evidences,

^{30 Ref} That the evil man is reserved to the day of calamity? That they are led forth to the day of wrath?

^{31 Ref} Who shall declare his way to his face? Who shall repay him what he has done?

^{32 Ref} Yet shall he be borne to the grave, Men shall keep watch over the tomb.

^{33 Ref} The clods of the valley shall be sweet to him. All men shall draw after him, As there were innumerable before him.

^{34 Ref} So how can you comfort me with nonsense, Seeing that in your answers there remains only falsehood?"