2. Hear attentively my speech, and let this replace your consolations.
3. Suffer me and I will speak; and after I have spoken, mock on!
4. As for me, is my complaint to a man? or wherefore should not my spirit be impatient?
5. Mark me, and be astonished, and lay the hand upon the mouth.
6. Even when I think thereon, I am affrighted, and trembling taketh hold of my flesh.
7. Wherefore do the wicked live, grow old, yea, become mighty in power?
8. Their seed is established with them in their sight, and their offspring before their eyes.
9. Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of +God upon them.