12. Does not God, in the heights of the heavens,behold the top of the stars, high though they are?
13. Yet you say, “What does God know?Can he judge through the thick darkness?
14. Clouds hide him so that he cannot seeas he walks around the circuit of the heavens!”
15. Do you indeed keep to the ancient waytrodden by the worthless?
16. They were snatched before their time;their foundations a river swept away.
17. They said to God, “Let us alone!”and, “What can the Almighty do to us?”
18. Yet he had filled their houses with good things.The designs of the wicked are far from me!
19. The just look on and are glad,and the innocent deride them:
20. “Truly our enemies are destroyed,and what was left to them, fire has consumed!”