10. That is why you are surrounded by trapsand tremble from sudden fears.
11. That is why you cannot see in the darkness,and waves of water cover you.
12. “God is so great—higher than the heavens,higher than the farthest stars.
13. But you reply, ‘That’s why God can’t see what I am doing!How can he judge through the thick darkness?
14. For thick clouds swirl about him, and he cannot see us.He is way up there, walking on the vault of heaven.’
15. “Will you continue on the old pathswhere evil people have walked?
16. They were snatched away in the prime of life,the foundations of their lives washed away.
17. For they said to God, ‘Leave us alone!What can the Almighty do to us?’