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19 They were the people who received the land.
    No foreigners were there to deceive them.
20 They knew this:
    A wicked person will have trouble all his life.
    Anyone who is cruel will suffer every year that he lives.
21 He will hear things that frighten him.
He may think that he is safe,
    but robbers will attack him.

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19 (to whom alone the land(A) was given
    when no foreigners moved among them):
20 All his days the wicked man suffers torment,(B)
    the ruthless man through all the years stored up for him.(C)
21 Terrifying sounds fill his ears;(D)
    when all seems well, marauders attack him.(E)

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