14. They say to God, ‘Depart from us!We do not desire the knowledge of your ways.
15. What is the Almighty, that we should serve him?And what profit do we get if we pray to him?’
16. Behold, is not their prosperity in their hand? The counsel of the wicked is far from me.
17. “How often is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out?That their calamity comes upon them?That God distributes pains in his anger?
18. That they are like straw before the wind,and like chaff that the storm carries away?
19. You say, ‘God stores up their iniquity for their children.’Let him pay it out to them, that they may know it.
20. Let their own eyes see their destruction,and let them drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
21. For what do they care for their houses after them,when the number of their months is cut off?