¹³ They spend their years in prosperity^(A)
    and go down to the grave^(B) in peace.^[a](C)
14 Yet they say to God, ‘Leave us alone!^(D)
    We have no desire to know your ways.^(E)
15 Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him?
    What would we gain by praying to him?’^(F)
16 But their prosperity is not in their own hands,
    so I stand aloof from the plans of the wicked.^(G)

¹⁷ “Yet how often is the lamp of the wicked snuffed out?^(H)
    How often does calamity^(I) come upon them,
    the fate God allots in his anger?^(J)
18 How often are they like straw before the wind,
    like chaff^(K) swept away^(L) by a gale?^(M)
19 It is said, ‘God stores up the punishment of the wicked for their children.’^(N)
    Let him repay the wicked, so that they themselves will experience it!^(O)
20 Let their own eyes see their destruction;^(P)
    let them drink^(Q) the cup of the wrath of the Almighty.^(R)
21 For what do they care about the families they leave behind^(S)
    when their allotted months^(T) come to an end?^(U)

²² “Can anyone teach knowledge to God,^(V)
    since he judges even the highest?^(W)