14. They say to God, ‘Leave us alone!We don’t want to know your ways.
15. Who is the Almighty that we should serve him?What would we gain by praying to him?’
16. The success of the wicked is not their own doing.Their way of thinking is different from mine.
17. Yet how often are the lamps of evil people turned off?How often does trouble come to them?How often do they suffer God’s angry punishment?
18. How often are they like straw in the windor like chaff that is blown away by a storm?
19. It is said, ‘God saves up a person’s punishment for his children.’But God should punish the wicked themselves so they will know it.
20. Their eyes should see their own destruction,and they should suffer the anger of the Almighty.
21. They do not care about the families they leave behindwhen their lives have come to an end.
22. “No one can teach knowledge to God;he is the one who judges even the most important people.
23. One person dies while he still has all his strength,feeling completely safe and comfortable.
24. His body was well fed,and his bones were strong and healthy.
25. But another person dies with an unhappy heart,never enjoying any happiness.
26. They are buried next to each other,and worms cover them both.
27. “I know very well your thoughtsand your plans to wrong me.