3. Give me a chance to speak and then,when I am through, sneer if you like.
4. My quarrel is not with mortals;I have good reason to be impatient.
5. Look at me. Isn't that enoughto make you stare in shocked silence?
6. When I think of what has happened to me,I am stunned, and I tremble and shake.
7. Why does God let evil people live,let them grow old and prosper?
8. They have children and grandchildren,and live to watch them all grow up.
9. God does not bring disaster on their homes;they never have to live in terror.
10. Yes, all their cattle breedand give birth without trouble.
11. Their children run and play like lambs
12. and dance to the music of harps and flutes.
13. They live out their lives in peaceand quietly die without suffering.
14. The wicked tell God to leave them alone;they don't want to know his will for their lives.
15. They think there is no need to serve Godnor any advantage in praying to him.
16. They claim they succeed by their own strength,but their way of thinking I can't accept.