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!