21:7 “Why do the wicked go on living,
grow old,
21:8 Their children
in their presence,
their offspring before their eyes.
21:9 Their houses are safe
and no rod of punishment
21:10 Their bulls
their cows calve and do not miscarry.
21:11 They allow their children to run
their little ones dance about.
21:12 They sing
and make merry to the sound of the flute.
21:13 They live out
and go down
21:14 So they say to God, ‘Turn away from us!
We do not want to
21:15 Who is the Almighty, that
What would we gain
if we were to pray
21:16 But their prosperity is not their own doing.
The counsel of the wicked is far from me!
21:17 “How often
How often does their
How often does God apportion pain
21:18 How often
and like chaff swept away
21:19 You may say,
Instead let him repay
so that
21:20 Let his own eyes see his destruction;
let him drink of the anger of the Almighty.
21:21 For what is his interest
after his death,
when the number of his months
has been broken off?
21:22 Can anyone teach
since
21:23 “One man dies in his full vigor,
completely secure and prosperous,
21:24 his body
and the marrow of his bones moist.
21:25 And another man
never having tasted
21:26 Together they lie down in the dust,
and worms cover over them both.