13. They spend their days in prosperity and go down to Sheol in peace.
14. Yet they say to God: “Leave us alone!We don’t want to know Your ways.
15. Who is the Almighty, that we should serve Him,and what will we gain by pleading with Him? ”
16. But their prosperity is not of their own doing.The counsel of the wicked is far from me!
17. How often is the lamp of the wicked put out?Does disaster come on them?Does He apportion destruction in His anger?
18. Are they like straw before the wind,like chaff a storm sweeps away?
19. God reserves a person’s punishment for his children. Let God repay the person himself, so that he may know it.
20. Let his own eyes see his demise;let him drink from the Almighty’s wrath!
21. For what does he care about his family once he is dead, when the number of his months has run out?
22. Can anyone teach God knowledge, since He judges the exalted ones?
23. One person dies in excellent health, completely secure and at ease.
24. His body is well fed, and his bones are full of marrow.
25. Yet another person dies with a bitter soul,having never tasted prosperity.
26. But they both lie in the dust,and worms cover them.