18:021:002 Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations. 18:021:003 Suffer me that I may speak; and after that I have spoken, mock on. 18:021:004 As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled? 18:021:005 Mark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth. 18:021:006 Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh. 18:021:007 Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power? 18:021:008 Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes. 18:021:009 Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them. 18:021:010 Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf. 18:021:011 They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance. 18:021:012 They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ. 18:021:013 They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave. 18:021:014 Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways. 18:021:015 What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him? 18:021:016 Lo, their good is not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me. 18:021:017 How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and how oft cometh their destruction upon them! God distributeth sorrows in his anger. 18:021:018 They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away. 18:021:019 God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know it. 18:021:020 His eyes shall see his destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty. 18:021:021 For what pleasure hath he in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off in the midst? 18:021:022 Shall any teach God knowledge? seeing he judgeth those that are high. 18:021:023 One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet. 18:021:024 His breasts are full of milk, and his bones are moistened with marrow. 18:021:025 And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never eateth with pleasure. 18:021:026 They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them. 18:021:027 Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me. 18:021:028 For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked? 18:021:029 Have ye not asked them that go by the way? and do ye not know their tokens,