Some were sick through their sinful ways, and because of their iniquities suffered affliction;
The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, they do abominable deeds, there is none that does good.
The dull man cannot know, the stupid cannot understand this:
“How long, O simple ones, will you love being simple? How long will scoffers delight in their scoffing and fools hate knowledge?
All at once he follows her, as an ox goes to the slaughter, or as a stag is caught fast
and I have seen among the simple, I have perceived among the youths, a young man without sense,
Your wickedness will chasten you, and your apostasy will reprove you. Know and see that it is evil and bitter for you to forsake the Lord your God; the fear of me is not in you, says the Lord God of hosts.
Why should a living man complain, a man, about the punishment of his sins?