¹⁴ With kings and counsellors of the earth, which build desolate places for themselves;

⁶ The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God bringeth abundantly.

⁷ Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.

⁷ Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?

²³ Though it be given him to be in safety, whereon he resteth; yet his eyes are upon their ways.

³⁵ Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book.

¹⁵ But now, because it is not so, he hath visited in his anger; yet he knoweth it not in great extremity:

¹² Behold, these are the ungodly, who prosper in the world; they increase in riches.

¹¹ Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.

12 Righteous art thou, O Lord, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously?