ECB(i)
17 How often the lamp of the wicked extinguishes! And their calamity comes on them! He apportions pangs in his wrath;
18 - as straw at the face of the wind and as chaff stolen by the hurricane.
19 Elohah lays up his punishment of mischief for his sons; - shalam him so that he knows.
20 His eyes see his destruction and he drinks of the fury of Shadday.
21 For how delights he in his house after him, when the number of his months is severed in half?
22 Whoever teaches El knowledge - seeing he judges the lofty?
23 One dies in the integrity of his bones, wholly serene and secure:
24 his pails are full of milk and his bones moistened with marrow.
25 Another dies with bitter soul and never eats good.
26 Together they lie in the dust; the maggots cover them.
27 Behold, I know the fabrications and intrigues you violate against me:
28 for you say, Where is the house of the volunteer? and where are the tents - the tabernacles of the wicked?
29 Ask you not of them who pass by the way? Recognize you not their signs
30 - that the evil are spared to the day of calamity? - to be brought forth to the day of fury?
31 Who tells his way to his face? Who shalams him for what he works?
32 Yet he - he is brought to the tomb and watches in the heap:
33 the clods of the wadi sweeten to him and he draws all humanity after him - innumerable at his face.
34 How then sigh you over me in vain, seeing that treason survives in your responses?