18. Let them be like straw before the wind,like chaff the storm carries away!
19. “God is storing up the man’s misery for his children”?—let him requite the man himself so that he knows it!
20. Let his own eyes behold his calamity,and the wrath of the Almighty let him drink!
21. For what interest has he in his family after him,when the number of his months is finished?
22. Can anyone teach God knowledge,seeing that he judges those on high?
23. One dies in his full vigor,wholly at ease and content;
24. His figure is full and nourished,his bones are moist with marrow.
25. Another dies with a bitter spirit,never having tasted happiness.
26. Alike they lie down in the dust,and worms cover them both.
27. See, I know your thoughts,and the arguments you plot against me.
28. For you say, “Where is the house of the great,and where the dwelling place of the wicked?”
29. Have you not asked the wayfarersand do you not acknowledge the witness they give?
30. On the day of calamity the evil man is spared,on the day that wrath is released.
31. Who will charge him to his face about his conduct,and for what he has done who will repay him?
32. He is carried to the graveand at his tomb they keep watch.
33. Sweet to him are the clods of the valley.All humankind will follow after him,and countless others before him.
34. How empty the consolation you offer me!Your arguments remain a fraud.