7. Why do the wicked live, become old, and become mighty in power?
8. Their children are established with them in their sight, and their offspring before their eyes.
9. Their houses are safe and in peace, without fear; neither is the rod of God upon them.
10. Their bull breeds and fails not; their cows calve and do not miscarry.
11. They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children skip about.
12. They themselves lift up their voices and sing to the tambourine and the lyre and rejoice to the sound of the pipe.
13. They spend their days in prosperity and go down to Sheol (the unseen state) in a moment and peacefully.
14. Yet they say to God, Depart from us, for we do not desire the knowledge of Your ways.
15. Who is the Almighty, that we should serve Him? And what profit do we have if we pray to Him? [Exod. 5:2.]
16. But notice, [you say] the prosperity of the wicked is not in their power; the mystery [of God's dealings] with the ungodly is far from my comprehension.
17. How often [then] is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out? That their calamity comes upon them? That God distributes pains and sorrows to them in His anger? [Luke 12:46.]