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?’
18. Yet he was the one who filled their homes with good things,so I will have nothing to do with that kind of thinking.
19. “The righteous will be happy to see the wicked destroyed,and the innocent will laugh in contempt.
20. They will say, ‘See how our enemies have been destroyed.The last of them have been consumed in the fire.’
21. “Submit to God, and you will have peace;then things will go well for you.
22. Listen to his instructions,and store them in your heart.
23. If you return to the Almighty, you will be restored—so clean up your life.