2 Hear ye diligently my word, And this is your consolation.
         
                                
                        3 Bear with me, and I speak, And after my speaking -- ye may  deride.
         
                                
                        4 I -- to man [is] my complaint? and if [so], wherefore May  not my temper become short?
         
                                
                        5 Turn unto me, and be astonished, And put hand to mouth.
         
                                
                        6 Yea, if I have remembered, then I have been troubled. And  my flesh hath taken fright.
         
                                
                        7 Wherefore do the wicked live? They have become old, Yea,  they have been mighty in wealth.
         
                                
                        8 Their seed is established, Before their face with them, And  their offspring before their eyes.