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15 Who is Almighty God, that we serve him? and what profiteth it to us, if we pray (to) him?

16 Nevertheless for their goods be not in their hand, or power, the counsel of wicked men be far from me. (And they say, that all their good things come from their own hands, or their own effort; may the counsel of the wicked be far from me!)

17 How oft shall the lantern of wicked men be quenched, and flowing shall come upon them, and God shall part with them the sorrows of his strong vengeance? (How often is the lantern of the wicked quenched, and destruction shall come upon them? how often shall God impart to them the sorrows of his strong vengeance?)

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15 Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him?
    What would we gain by praying to him?’(A)
16 But their prosperity is not in their own hands,
    so I stand aloof from the plans of the wicked.(B)

17 “Yet how often is the lamp of the wicked snuffed out?(C)
    How often does calamity(D) come upon them,
    the fate God allots in his anger?(E)

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