12. They sing to the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the pipe.
13. They spend their days in prosperity, and in a moment they go down to Sheol.
14. Yet they said 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 profit should we have, if we pray unto him?
16. Lo, their prosperity is not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
17. How oft is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out? that their calamity cometh upon them? that God distributeth sorrows in his anger?
18. That they are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away?
19. Ye say, God layeth up his iniquity for his children. Let him recompense it unto himself, that he may know it.
20. Let his own eyes see his destruction, and let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
21. For what pleasure hath he in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off in the midst?