13. And you say: "Well, what does God know?" and, "He judges, as if through a fog,"
14. and, "The clouds are his hiding-place," and, "He does not examine us closely," and, "He makes his rounds at the limits of the heavens."
15. Do you not want to tend the path of the ages, which wicked men have spurned?
16. These were taken away before their time, and a flood overthrew their foundation.
17. They said to God, "Withdraw from us," and they treated the Almighty as if he could do nothing,
18. though he had filled their houses with good things. May their way of thinking be far from me.
19. The just will see and will rejoice, and the innocent will mock them.
20. Has not their haughtiness been cut down, and has not fire devoured the remnants of them?