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When I think about this,[a] I’m petrified with terror
    and my body shudders uncontrollably.”

The Wicked Prospers

“Why do the wicked live to reach old age
    and increase in power and wealth, too?
Their children grow up while they’re alive,
    and they live to see their grandchildren.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 21:6 The Heb. lacks of this

When I think about this, I am terrified;(A)
    trembling seizes my body.(B)
Why do the wicked live on,
    growing old and increasing in power?(C)
They see their children established around them,
    their offspring before their eyes.(D)

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