12. They sing to the tambourine and lyre, and rejoice to the sound of the flute.
13. They spend their days in goodness, and in a moment go down to the grave.
14. And they say to Ěl, ‘Turn aside from us, for we have no desire to know Your ways.
15. Who is the Almighty, that we should serve Him? And what profit do we have if we pray to Him?’
16. See, is their good not in their own hand? (The counsel of the wrong has been far from me).
17. How often is the lamp of the wrong put out, and does come upon them their calamity, sorrows He allots in His displeasure?
18. They are like straw before the wind, and like chaff that a storm steals away.
19. You say, ‘Eloah stores up one’s wickedness for his children.’ Let Him repay him, so that he knows it.
20. Let his eyes see his destruction, and let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
21. For what is his delight in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off?
22. Does anyone teach Ěl knowledge, since He judges those that are exalted?
23. One dies in his perfect strength, completely at ease and satisfied;
24. His pails are filled with milk, and his bones are juicy with marrow.
25. Another one dies in the bitterness of his being, and never eats with pleasure.
26. Together they lie down in the dust, and worms cover them.
27. Look, I know your thoughts, and the plots with which you would wrong me.