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.
10. Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf.
11. They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.
12. They shout to the tambour and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the pipe.
13. They spend their days in prosperity, and in a moment go down to Sheol.
14. And they say unto ·God Depart from us, for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways!
15. What is the Almighty that we should serve him? and what are we profited if we pray unto him?
16. Behold, their prosperity is not in their hand. The counsel of the wicked be far from me!
17. How often is the lamp of the wicked put out, and cometh their calamity upon them? Doth he distribute sorrows to them in his anger?
18. Do they become as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away?
19. +God layeth up the punishment of his iniquity for his children; he rewardeth him, and he shall know it: