6. When I think of it, I am terrified and my flesh shudders.
7. Why do the wicked go on living, growing old and increasing in power?
8. Their children are established in their presence, their offspring before their eyes.
9. Their homes have peace and are free from fear; no rod of God is on them.
10. His bull breeds without fail; his cow calves and do not miscarry.
11. They send out their little ones like a flock and their children dance.
12. They sing to the tambourine and harp and rejoice at the sound of the flute.
13. They spend their days in prosperity, and in a moment go down to Sheol.
14. Yet they say to God, ‘Leave us alone! We have no desire to know Your ways.
15. Who is Shaddai that we should serve Him? What would we gain if we pray to Him?’
16. Look, their prosperity is not in their own hands; the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
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?