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.
33. The soil in the valley is sweet to him; everyone follows after him, and countless are those before him.
34. “So how will your futility comfort me, for your answers remain nothing but falsehood?”