11. Their children run and play like flocks of lambs.Their little ones dance about.
12. They sing to the music of tambourines and harps.The sound of the flute makes them happy.
13. Evil people enjoy success during their lives.Then they go down in peace to where the dead are.
14. But they say to God, ‘Leave us alone!We don’t want to know your ways.
15. Who is God All-Powerful that we should serve him?We would gain nothing by praying to him.’
16. But the wicked think they succeed by their own strength.Their way of thinking is not godly.
17. Yet how often is the lamp of evil people turned off?How often does trouble come to them?How often do they suffer the punishment God plans in his anger?
18. How often are they like straw in the windor like chaff that is blown away by a storm?
19. It is said, ‘God saves up a man’s punishment for the man’s children.’God should punish the evil person himself so he will know it.
20. His eyes should see his own destruction.He should suffer the anger of God All-Powerful.
21. He does not care about the family he leaves behindwhen his life has come to an end.
22. “No one can teach knowledge to God.He is the one who judges even the most important people.