8. They see their offspring continue before them: a commotion of close relatives and of children's children in their sight.
9. Their houses have been secure and peaceable, and there is no staff of God over them.
10. Their cattle have conceived and have not miscarried; their cow has given birth and is not deprived of her newborn.
11. Their little ones go out like a flock, and their children jump around playfully.
12. They take up the timbrel and the lyre, and they rejoice at the sound of the organ.
13. Their days are prolonged in wealth, yet, in an instant, they descend into hell.
14. Who has said to God, "Depart from us, for we do not want the knowledge of your ways.
15. Who is the Almighty that we should serve him? And how is it helpful to us if we pray to him?"
16. It is true that their good things are not in their power. May the counsel of the impious be far from me!
17. How often will the lamp of the wicked be extinguished, and a deluge overtake them, and how often will he distribute the afflictions of his wrath?
18. They will be like chaff before the face of the wind, and like ashes that the whirlwind scatters.
19. God will preserve the grief of the father for his sons, and, when he repays, then he will understand.
20. His eyes will see his own destruction, and he will drink from the wrath of the Almighty.