15. Who is the Almighty, and why should we obey him?What good will it do us to pray?’
16. (They think their prosperity is of their own doing,but I will have nothing to do with that kind of thinking.)
17. “Yet the light of the wicked never seems to be extinguished.Do they ever have trouble?Does God distribute sorrows to them in anger?
18. Are they driven before the wind like straw?Are they carried away by the storm like chaff?Not at all!
19. “‘Well,’ you say, ‘at least God will punish their children!’But I say he should punish the ones who sin,so that they understand his judgment.
20. Let them see their destruction with their own eyes.Let them drink deeply of the anger of the Almighty.