17 How often is the lamps of the wicked put out?

Does disasterC come on them?

Does he apportion destruction in his anger?

18 Are they like straw before the wind,

like chafft a storm sweeps away?

19 God reserves a person’s punishment for his children.u

Let God repay the person himself, so that he may know it.

20 Let his own eyes see his demise;

let him drink from the Almighty’s wrath!v

21 For what does he care about his family once he is dead,w

when the number of his months has run out?x