11. They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.
12. They shout to the tambour and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the pipe.
13. They spend their days in prosperity, and in a moment go down to Sheol.
14. And they say unto ·God Depart from us, for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways!
15. What is the Almighty that we should serve him? and what are we profited if we pray unto him?
16. Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand. The counsel of the wicked be far from me!
17. How often is the lamp of the wicked put out, and cometh their calamity upon them? Doth he distribute sorrows to them in his anger?
18. Do they become as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away?
19. +God layeth up the punishment of his iniquity for his children; he rewardeth him, and he shall know it:
20. His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the fury of the Almighty.
21. For what pleasure should he have in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off?
22. Can any teach ·God knowledge? And he it is that judgeth those that are high.
23. One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet;