¹⁷ “Yet how often is the lamp of the wicked snuffed out?^(A)
    How often does calamity^(B) come upon them,
    the fate God allots in his anger?^(C)
18 How often are they like straw before the wind,
    like chaff^(D) swept away^(E) by a gale?^(F)
19 It is said, ‘God stores up the punishment of the wicked for their children.’^(G)
    Let him repay the wicked, so that they themselves will experience it!^(H)
20 Let their own eyes see their destruction;^(I)
    let them drink^(J) the cup of the wrath of the Almighty.^(K)
21 For what do they care about the families they leave behind^(L)
    when their allotted months^(M) come to an end?^(N)

¹⁸ “Yet they are foam^(A) on the surface of the water;^(B)
    their portion of the land is cursed,^(C)
    so that no one goes to the vineyards.^(D)
19 As heat and drought snatch away the melted snow,^(E)
    so the grave^(F) snatches away those who have sinned.
²⁰ The womb forgets them,
    the worm^(G) feasts on them;^(H)
the wicked are no longer remembered^(I)
    but are broken like a tree.^(J)
21 They prey on the barren and childless woman,
    and to the widow they show no kindness.^(K)