19. You may say, ‘God stores up a man’s punishment for his children!’Instead let him repay the man himself so that he may know it!
20. Let his own eyes see his destruction;let him drink of the anger of the Almighty.
21. For what is his interest in his home after his death,when the number of his months has been broken off?
22. Can anyone teach God knowledge,since he judges those that are on high?
23. “One man dies in his full vigor,completely secure and prosperous,
24. his body well nourished,and the marrow of his bones moist.
25. And another man dies in bitterness of soul,never having tasted anything good.
26. Together they lie down in the dust,and worms cover over them both.
27. “Yes, I know what you are thinking,the schemes by which you would wrong me.