2 Hear diligently my speech and let this be your consolations

3 Suffer me that I may speak and after that I have spoken mock on

4 As for me is my complaint to man and if it were so why should not my spirit be troubled

5 Mark me and be astonished and lay your hand upon your mouth

6 Even when I remember I am afraid and trembling taketh hold on my flesh

7 Wherefore do the wicked live become old yea are mighty in power

8 Their seed is established in their sight with them and their offspring before their eyes

9 Their houses are safe from fear neither is the rod of God upon them

10 Their bull gendereth and faileth not their cow calveth and casteth not her calf

11 They send forth their little ones like a flock and their children dance

12 They take the timbrel and harp and rejoice at the sound of the organ

13 They spend their days in wealth and in a moment go down to the grave

14 Therefore they say unto God Depart from us for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways

15 What is the Almighty that we should serve him and what profit should we have if we pray unto him

16 Lo their good is not in their hand the counsel of the wicked is far from me

17 How oft is the candle of the wicked put out and how oft cometh their destruction upon them God distributeth sorrows in his anger

18 They are as stubble before the wind and as chaff that the storm carrieth away

19 God layeth up his iniquity for his children he rewardeth him and he shall know it

20 His eyes shall see his destruction and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty

21 For what pleasure hath he in his house after him when the number of his months is cut off in the midst

22 Shall any teach God knowledge seeing he judgeth those that are high

23 One dieth in his full strength being wholly at ease and quiet

24 His breasts are full of milk and his bones are moistened with marrow

25 And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul and never eateth with pleasure

26 They shall lie down alike in the dust and the worms shall cover them

27 Behold I know your thoughts and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me

28 For ye say Where is the house of the prince and where are the dwelling places of the wicked

29 Have ye not asked them that go by the way and do ye not know their tokens

30 That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath

31 Who shall declare his way to his face and who shall repay him what he hath done

32 Yet shall he be brought to the grave and shall remain in the tomb

33 The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him and every man shall draw after him as there are innumerable before him

34 How then comfort ye me in vain seeing in your answers there remaineth false.hood