LEB(i)
17 "How often is the lamp of the wicked put out, and their disaster comes upon them? He* distributes pains in his anger.
18 How often are they like straw ⌊before⌋* the wind, and like chaff that the storm carries away?
19 'God stores up his iniquity for his children'?* Then let him repay it to him that* he may know.
20 Let his eyes see his decay, and let him drink from the wrath of Shaddai,
21 for what ⌊does he care for⌋* his house after him, when the number of his months is* cut off?
22 Can anyone teach knowledge to God, since* he himself* judges high ones?
23 This one dies ⌊in full prosperity⌋,* ⌊completely⌋* at ease and secure.
24 His vats are full with milk and the marrow of his bones is moist.
25 Yet* another dies with a bitter inner self* and has not tasted prosperity.
26 They lie down together in the dust, and maggots cover them.
27 "Look, I know your* thoughts and the schemes you devise against me.
28 For you say, 'Where is the nobleman's house, and where are ⌊the tents in which the wicked dwell⌋?'*
29 Do you not ask those traveling the roads, and do you not take notice of their accounts?
30 Indeed, the wicked is spared from the day of disaster; he is delivered from the day of wrath.
31 Who denounces his way to his face? And who repays him for what he has done?
32 When* he is brought to the grave, then* someone stands guard over the tomb.
33 The clods of the valley are sweet to him; everyone will follow after him, and ⌊before⌋* him ⌊they are innumerable⌋.*
34 So* how will you comfort me with emptiness, when* fraud is left in your answers?"