21:2. Hear, I beseech you, my words, and do penance.
21:3. Suffer me, and I will speak, and after, if you please, laugh at my words.
21:4. Is my debate against man, that I should not have just reason to be troubled?
21:5. Hearken to me and be astonished, and lay your finger on your mouth.
21:6. As for me, when I remember, I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh.
21:7. Why then do the wicked live, are they advanced, and strengthened with riches?
21:8. Their seed continueth before them, a multitude of kinsmen, and of children's children in their sight.
21:9. Their houses are secure and peaceable, and the rod of God is not upon them.
21:10. Their cattle have conceived, and failed not: their cow has calved, and is not deprived of her fruit.
21:11. Their little ones go out like a flock, and their children dance and play.