²² It is all the same; that is why I say,
    ‘He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.’^(A)
23 When a scourge^(B) brings sudden death,
    he mocks the despair of the innocent.^(C)

³⁰ Even if I washed myself with soap^(A)
    and my hands^(B) with cleansing powder,^(C)
31 you would plunge me into a slime pit^(D)
    so that even my clothes would detest me.^(E)

⁷ Why do the wicked live on,
    growing old and increasing in power?^(A)

¹⁵ Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him?
    What would we gain by praying to him?’^(A)

24 “Why does the Almighty not set times^(A) for judgment?^(B)
    Why must those who know him look in vain for such days?^(C)

³ Yet you ask him, ‘What profit is it to me,^[a]
    and what do I gain by not sinning?’^(A)