Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations.

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

Mark me, and be astonished, and lay your hand upon your mouth.

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

Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf.

They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ.

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

Lo, their good is not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me.