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Such is the lot God allots the wicked, and the heritage of his appointment from God."

"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?

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!

Let his own eyes see his destruction; let him drink of the anger of the Almighty.

For what is his interest in his home after his death, when the number of his months has been broken off?

"One man dies in his full vigor, completely secure and prosperous,

his body well nourished, and the marrow of his bones moist.

that the evil man is spared from the day of his misfortune, that he is delivered from the day of God's wrath?

No one denounces his conduct to his face; no one repays him for what he has done.

Accept instruction from his mouth and store up his words in your heart.

"Even today my complaint is still bitter; his hand is heavy despite my groaning.

O that I knew where I might find him, that I could come to his place of residence!

There an upright person could present his case before him, and I would be delivered forever from my judge.

My feet have followed his steps closely; I have kept to his way and have not turned aside.

I have not departed from the commands of his lips; I have treasured the words of his mouth more than my allotted portion.

For he fulfills his decree against me, and many such things are his plans.

That is why I am terrified in his presence; when I consider, I am afraid because of him.

"Why are times not appointed by the Almighty? Why do those who know him not see his days?

And the eye of the adulterer watches for the twilight, thinking, ‘No eye can see me,' and covers his face with a mask.

But God drags off the mighty by his power; when God rises up against him, he has no faith in his life.