18. How often are they like dried-up seed coverings blowing in the wind? How often are they like straw swept away by a storm?
19. People say, 'God punishes a man's children for his sins.' But let him punish the man himself. Then he'll learn a lesson from it.
20. Let his own eyes see how he is destroyed. Let him drink the wine of the Mighty One's anger.
21. What does he care about the family he leaves behind? What does he care about them when his life comes to an end?
22. "Can anyone teach God anything? After all, he judges even the angels in heaven.
23. Some people die while they are still very strong. They are completely secure. They have an easy life.
24. They are well fed. Their bodies are healthy.
25. Others die while their spirits are bitter. They've never enjoyed anything good.
26. Side by side they lie in the dust of death. The worms in their graves cover all of them.
27. "I know exactly what you people are thinking. I know you are planning to do bad things to me.
28. You are saying to yourselves, 'Where is the great man's house now? Where are the tents where his evil family lived?'
29. Haven't you ever asked questions of those who travel? Haven't you paid any attention to their stories?
30. They'll tell you that sinful people are spared from the day of trouble. They'll say that those people are saved from the day when God will judge.