¹⁴ They say to God, “Keep away from us.
We know your ways, but we find no pleasure in them.”
¹⁵ “Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him,
and what benefit do we gain from pleading with him?”
¹⁶ But I know that their prosperity is not in their own hands,
so I have distanced myself from the way of life^[a] of the wicked.