14 (A)Yet they say to God, ‘Depart from us,
For we do not desire the knowledge of Your ways.
15 (B)Who is the Almighty, that we should serve Him?
And (C)what profit do we have if we pray to Him?’
16 Indeed [a]their prosperity is not in their hand;
(D)The counsel of the wicked is far from me.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 21:16 Lit. their goal

14 Yet they say to God, ‘Leave us alone!(A)
    We have no desire to know your ways.(B)
15 Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him?
    What would we gain by praying to him?’(C)
16 But their prosperity is not in their own hands,
    so I stand aloof from the plans of the wicked.(D)

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