17. “How often is the lamp of the wicked snuffed out or calamity fallen on them? How often does He allot pain in His anger?
18. How often are they like straw before the wind; like chaff swept away by a storm?
19. You say, ‘God stores up the punishment for his children.’ Let Him repay the wicked so he may know it!
20. Let his own eyes see his ruin; let him drink the wrath of Shaddai.
21. For what does he care for his family that he leaves behind, when the number of his months has come to an end?
22. “Can anyone teach God knowledge, since He judges even the highest.
23. One dies in his full strength, completely secure and at ease.
24. His pails are full of milk; His bones are moist with marrow.
25. Yet another dies in bitterness of soul, never having tasted goodness.
26. Together they lie in the dust and worms cover over them.
27. “Behold, I know your thoughts, the schemes by which you wrong me.
28. For you ask, ‘Where is the nobleman’s house and the tent where the wicked lived?’