17. “How often is the lamp of the wicked put out, and their disaster comes upon them? He distributes pains in his anger.
18. How often are they like straw before the wind, and like chaff that the storm carries away?
19. ‘God stores up his iniquity for his children’? Then let him repay it to him that he may know.
20. Let his eyes see his decay, and let him drink from the wrath of Shaddai,
21. for what does he care for his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off?
22. Can anyone teach knowledge to God, since he himself judges high ones?
23. This one dies in full prosperity, completely at ease and secure.
24. His vats are full with milk and the marrow of his bones is moist.