8. Their descendants are established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes.
9. Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them.
10. Their bull breeds, and fails not; their cow calves, and casts not her calf.
11. They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.
12. They sing to the tambourine and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the flute.
13. They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave.
14. Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of your 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 often is the lamp of the wicked put out! and how often comes their destruction upon them! God distributes sorrows in his anger.
18. They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carries away.