11. or darkness, so that you cannot see,and a flood of water covers you.
12. “Is not God high in the heavens?See the highest stars, how lofty they are!
13. But you say, ‘What does God know?Can he judge through the deep darkness?
14. Thick clouds veil him, so that he does not see,and he walks on the vault of heaven.’
15. Will you keep to the old waythat wicked men have trod?
16. They were snatched away before their time;their foundation was washed away.
17. They said to God, ‘Depart from us,’and ‘What can the Almighty do to us?’
18. Yet he filled their houses with good things—but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
19. The righteous see it and are glad;the innocent one mocks at them,