Can anyone teach knowledge to God, since he himself judges high ones?

This [one] dies {in full prosperity}, {completely} at ease and secure.

His vats are full [with] milk and the marrow of his bones is moist.

Indeed, [the] wicked is spared from [the] day of disaster; he is delivered from [the] day of wrath.

Who denounces his way to his face? And who repays him [for what] he has done?

When he is brought to [the] grave, then someone stands guard over [the] tomb.

So how will you comfort me [with] emptiness, when fraud is left [in] your answers?"

Yet another dies with a bitter inner self and has not tasted prosperity.

[How often] are they like straw {before} the wind, and like chaff that [the] storm carries away?

"Look, I know your thoughts and [the] schemes you devise against me.

They lie down together in [the] dust, and maggots cover them.

"Why do [the] wicked live, grow old, even grow mighty [in] power?

For you say, 'Where is the nobleman's house, and where [are] {the tents in which the wicked dwell}?'

Then Job answered and said,

And they say to God, 'Turn away from us, for we do not desire to know your ways.

Do you not ask [those] traveling [the] roads, and do you not take notice of their accounts?

[The] clods of [the] valley are sweet to him; everyone will follow after him, and {before} him {they are innumerable}.

They spend their days in prosperity, and in peace they go down to Sheol.

They {sing} to [the] tambourine and lyre, and they rejoice to [the] sound of [the] long flute.

They send out their little ones like the flock, and their children dance around.

Who [is] Shaddai that we should serve him, or what would we benefit when we plead with him?'

"How often is [the] lamp of [the] wicked put out, and their disaster comes upon them? He distributes pains in his anger.

"Listen carefully to my words, and let this be your consolation.

Bear [with] me, and I myself will speak; then after my speaking you can mock.

His bull breeds and does not fail; his cow calves and does not miscarry.

Turn to me and be appalled, and place [your] hand on [your] mouth.

'God stores up his iniquity for his children'? [Then] let him repay [it] to him that he may know.

for what {does he care for} his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off?

Their houses [are] safe without fear, and the rod of God [is] not upon them.

Let his eyes see his decay, and let him drink from the wrath of Shaddai,

[As for] me, [is] my complaint for human beings? And if [so], why cannot I be impatient?

Look, their prosperity [is] not in their hands; the schemes of [the] wicked are repugnant to me.

With them their offspring [are] established {before them}, and their descendants before their eyes.

And when I think of [it], I am horrified, and shuddering seizes my flesh.