21:12. They take the timbrel, and the harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ.
21:13. They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment they go down to hell.
21:14. Who have said to God: Depart from us, we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.
21:15. Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what doth it profit us if we pray to him?
21:16. Yet because their good things are not in their hand, may the counsel of the wicked be far from me.
21:17. How often shall the lamp of the wicked be put out, and a deluge come upon them, and he shall distribute the sorrows of his wrath?
21:18. They shall be as chaff before the face of the wind, and as ashes which the whirlwind scattereth.
21:19. God shall lay up the sorrow of the father for his children: and when he shall repay, then shall he know.
21:20. His eyes shall see his own destruction, and he shall drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
21:21. For what is it to him what befalleth his house after him: and if the number of his months be diminished by one half?