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?’
29. Have you not asked travelers? Do you not recognize their accounts
30. that the wicked are spared for the day of calamity that they are brought to the day of wrath?
31. Who declares his conduct to his face? Who repays him for what he has done?
32. He is brought to the grave, and watch is kept over his tomb.