22. Will any teach God knowledge,seeing that he judges those who are on high?
23. One dies in his full vigor,being wholly at ease and secure,
24. his pails full of milkand the marrow of his bones moist.
25. Another dies in bitterness of soul,never having tasted of prosperity.
26. They lie down alike in the dust,and the worms cover them.
27. “Behold, I know your thoughtsand your schemes to wrong me.
28. For you say, ‘Where is the house of the prince?Where is the tent in which the wicked lived?’
29. Have you not asked those who travel the roads,and do you not accept their testimony
30. that the evil man is spared in the day of calamity,that he is rescued in the day of wrath?
31. Who declares his way to his face,and who repays him for what he has done?
32. When he is carried to the grave,watch is kept over his tomb.
33. The clods of the valley are sweet to him; all mankind follows after him,and those who go before him are innumerable.
34. How then will you comfort me with empty nothings?There is nothing left of your answers but falsehood.”