¹⁶ But their prosperity is not in their own hands,
    so I stand aloof from the plans of the wicked.^(A)

¹⁷ “Yet how often is the lamp of the wicked snuffed out?^(B)
    How often does calamity^(C) come upon them,
    the fate God allots in his anger?^(D)
18 How often are they like straw before the wind,
    like chaff^(E) swept away^(F) by a gale?^(G)