How Often Do the Wicked Suffer?

17 “How often is the lamp of the wicked extinguished?

How often does their misfortune come upon them?

How often does God apportion pain to them in his anger?

18 How often are they like straw before the wind,

and like chaff swept away by a whirlwind?

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?