¹⁷ “Yet how often is the lamp of the wicked snuffed out?^(A)
    How often does calamity^(B) come upon them,
    the fate God allots in his anger?^(C)
18 How often are they like straw before the wind,
    like chaff^(D) swept away^(E) by a gale?^(F)
19 It is said, ‘God stores up the punishment of the wicked for their children.’^(G)
    Let him repay the wicked, so that they themselves will experience it!^(H)
20 Let their own eyes see their destruction;^(I)
    let them drink^(J) the cup of the wrath of the Almighty.^(K)
21 For what do they care about the families they leave behind^(L)
    when their allotted months^(M) come to an end?^(N)

²² “Can anyone teach knowledge to God,^(O)
    since he judges even the highest?^(P)
23 One person dies in full vigor,^(Q)
    completely secure and at ease,^(R)
24 well nourished^(S) in body,^[a]
    bones^(T) rich with marrow.^(U)
25 Another dies in bitterness of soul,^(V)
    never having enjoyed anything good.
²⁶ Side by side they lie in the dust,^(W)
    and worms^(X) cover them both.^(Y)