14. Yet they say to God, “Leave us alone!We have no desire to know your ways.
15. Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him?What would we gain by praying to him?”
16. But their prosperity is not in their own hands,so I stand aloof from the plans of the wicked.
17. ‘Yet how often is the lamp of the wicked snuffed out?How often does calamity come upon them,the fate God allots in his anger?
18. How often are they like straw before the wind,like chaff swept away by a gale?