17. "How often is the lamp of the wicked put out, Or does their calamity fall on them? Does God apportion destruction in His anger?
18. "Are they as straw before the wind, And like chaff which the storm carries away?
19. "You say, 'God stores away a man's iniquity for his sons.' Let God repay him so that he may know it.
20. "Let his own eyes see his decay, And let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
21. "For what does he care for his household after him, When the number of his months is cut off?