Surely You set them on slick ground; You cast them down into ruin.
…that though the wicked sprout like grass, and all evildoers flourish, they will be forever destroyed.
For what is the hope of the godless when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?
I have seen a wicked, ruthless man flourishing like a well-rooted native tree,
“For it is written in the book of Psalms: ‘May his place be deserted; let there be no one to dwell in it,’ and, ‘May another take his position.’
‘Cursed is the man who makes a carved idol or molten image—an abomination to the LORD, the work of the hands of a craftsman—and sets it up in secret.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
May their place be deserted; let there be no one to dwell in their tents.
For I envied the arrogant when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
They are but foam on the surface of the water; their portion of the land is cursed, so that no one turns toward their vineyards.
Righteous are You, O LORD, when I plead before You. Yet about Your judgments I wish to contend with You: Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all the faithless live at ease?