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² "Listen carefully to my words,
    and let this be the way you comfort me.
³ Be patient while I speak.
    After I have finished, you may continue to make fun of me.

⁴ "My complaint is not just against people;
    I have reason to be impatient.
⁵ Look at me and be shocked;
    put your hand over your mouth in shock.
⁶ When I think about this, I am terribly afraid
    and my body shakes.
⁷ Why do evil people live a long time?
    They grow old and become more powerful.
⁸ They see their children around them;
    they watch them grow up.
⁹ Their homes are safe and without fear;
    God does not punish them.
¹⁰ Their bulls never fail to mate;
    their cows have healthy calves.
¹¹ They send out their children like a flock;
    their little ones dance about.
¹² They sing to the music of tambourines and harps,
    and the sound of the flute makes them happy.
¹³ Evil people enjoy successful lives
    and then go peacefully to the grave.
¹⁴ They say to God, ‘Leave us alone!
    We don't want to know your ways.
¹⁵ Who is the Almighty that we should serve him?
    What would we gain by praying to him?'
¹⁶ The success of the wicked is not their own doing.
    Their way of thinking is different from mine.
¹⁷ Yet how often are the lamps of evil people turned off?
    How often does trouble come to them?
    How often do they suffer God's angry punishment?
¹⁸ How often are they like straw in the wind
    or like chaff that is blown away by a storm?
¹⁹ It is said, ‘God saves up a person's punishment for his children.'
    But God should punish the wicked themselves so they will know it.
²⁰ Their eyes should see their own destruction,
    and they should suffer the anger of the Almighty.
²¹ They do not care about the families they leave behind
    when their lives have come to an end.

²² "No one can teach knowledge to God;
    he is the one who judges even the most important people.
²³ One person dies while he still has all his strength,
    feeling completely safe and comfortable.
²⁴ His body was well fed,
    and his bones were strong and healthy.
²⁵ But another person dies with an unhappy heart,
    never enjoying any happiness.
²⁶ They are buried next to each other,
    and worms cover them both.

²⁷ "I know very well your thoughts
    and your plans to wrong me.
²⁸ You ask about me, ‘Where is this great man's house?
    Where are the tents where the wicked live?'
²⁹ Have you never asked those who travel?
    Have you never listened to their stories?
³⁰ On the day of God's anger and punishment,
    it is the wicked who are spared.
³¹ Who will accuse them to their faces?
    Who will pay them back for the evil they have done?
³² They are carried to their graves,
    and someone keeps watch over their tombs.
³³ The dirt in the valley seems sweet to them.
    Everybody follows after them,
    and many people go before them.

³⁴ "So how can you comfort me with this nonsense?
    Your answers are only lies!"