10. For this reason, snares surround you;sudden dread brings panic to you
11. or a darkness that you can’t see;rushing water will cover you.
12. Isn’t God in the heights of heaven;see how high the topmost stars are?
13. You say: "What does God know?Can he judge through thick clouds?
14. Clouds conceal him so he can’t seewhile he walks on heaven’s rim."
15. Will you keep the ancient waytraveled by sinful persons,
16. who were snatched prematurelywhen a river flooded their foundations,
17. who say to God, "Turn away from us;what can the Almighty do to us?"
18. Yet he filled their houses with good things;a sinner’s logic is beyond me.
19. The righteous see and rejoice;the innocent mock them: