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Did, I, unto man, make my complaint? Wherefore, then, should my spirit not be impatient?

Turn round to me, and be astonished, and lay hand on mouth!

When I call to mind, then am I dismayed, and there seizeth my flesh a shuddering: -

Wherefore do, lawless men, live, advance in years, even wax mighty in power?

Their seed, is established in their sight, along with them, yea their offspring, before their eyes;

Their houses, are at peace, without dread, neither is, the rod of GOD, upon them;

His bull, covereth, and causeth not aversion, His cow safely calveth, and casteth not her young;

They send forth - like a flock - their young ones, and, their children, skip about for joy;

They rejoice aloud as with timbrel and lyre, and make merry to the sound of the pipe;

They complete, in prosperity, their days, and, in a moment to hades, they sink down.

Yet they said unto GOD, Depart from us, and, In the knowledge of thy ways, find we no pleasure.

What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? Or what shall we profit, that we should urge him?

Lo! not in their own hand, is their welfare, The counsel of lawless men, is far from me!

How oft, the lamp of the lawless, goeth out, and their calamity, cometh upon them, Sorrows, apportioneth he in his anger;

They become as straw before the wind, and as chaff, which the storm stealeth away.