²² “Can anyone teach knowledge to God,^(A)
    since he judges even the highest?^(B)
23 One person dies in full vigor,^(C)
    completely secure and at ease,^(D)
24 well nourished^(E) in body,^[a]
    bones^(F) rich with marrow.^(G)
25 Another dies in bitterness of soul,^(H)
    never having enjoyed anything good.
²⁶ Side by side they lie in the dust,^(I)
    and worms^(J) cover them both.^(K)

²⁷ “I know full well what you are thinking,
    the schemes by which you would wrong me.
²⁸ You say, ‘Where now is the house of the great,^(L)
    the tents where the wicked lived?’^(M)
29 Have you never questioned those who travel?
    Have you paid no regard to their accounts—
³⁰ that the wicked are spared from the day of calamity,^(N)
    that they are delivered from^[b] the day of wrath?^(O)
31 Who denounces their conduct to their face?
    Who repays them for what they have done?^(P)
32 They are carried to the grave,
    and watch is kept over their tombs.^(Q)
33 The soil in the valley is sweet to them;^(R)
    everyone follows after them,
    and a countless throng goes^[c] before them.^(S)

³⁴ “So how can you console me^(T) with your nonsense?
    Nothing is left of your answers but falsehood!”^(U)