13. They spend their days in happiness,and they go peacefully to the grave.
14. But they say to God,‘Leave us alone.We don’t want to know your ways.
15. Who is the Almighty that we should serve him?What do we gain if we pray to him?’
16. Anyhow, isn’t their happiness in their own power?(The plan of the wicked is foreign to my way of thinking.)
17. “How often is the lamp of the wicked snuffed out?How often does disaster happen to them?How often does an angry God give them pain?
18. How often are they like straw in the windor like husks that the storm sweeps away?
19. “⌊You say,⌋ ‘God saves a person’s punishment for his children.’God should pay back that personso that he would know that it is a punishment.
20. His eyes should see his own ruin.He should drink from the wrath of the Almighty.