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;
24. His sides are full of fat, and the marrow of his bones is moistened;
25. And another dieth in bitterness of soul, and hath not tasted good:
26. Together they lie down in the dust, and the worms cover them.
27. Lo, I know your thoughts, and the devices ye wrongfully imagine against me.
28. For ye say, Where is the house of the noble? and where the tent of the dwellings of the wicked?
29. Have ye not asked the wayfarers? and do ye not regard their tokens: