13. They live out their years in prosperityand go down to the grave in peace.
14. So they say to God, ‘Turn away from us!We do not want to know your ways.
15. Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him?What would we gain if we were to pray to him?’
16. But their prosperity is not their own doing.The counsel of the wicked is far from me!
17. “How often is the lamp of the wicked extinguished?How often does their misfortune come upon them?How often does God apportion pain to them in his anger?
18. How often are they like straw before the wind,and like chaff swept away by a whirlwind?
19. You may say, ‘God stores up a man’s punishment for his children!’Instead let him repay the man himself so that he may know it!
20. Let his own eyes see his destruction;let him drink of the anger of the Almighty.
21. For what is his interest in his home after his death,when the number of his months has been broken off?
22. Can anyone teach God knowledge,since he judges those that are on high?
23. “One man dies in his full vigor,completely secure and prosperous,