15-18 “Are you going to persist in that tired old line
    that wicked men and women have always used?
Where did it get them? They died young,
    flash floods sweeping them off to their doom.
They told God, ‘Get lost!
    What good is God Almighty to us?’
And yet it was God who gave them everything they had.
    It’s beyond me how they can carry on like this!

19-20 “Good people see bad people crash, and call for a celebration.
    Relieved, they crow,
‘At last! Our enemies—wiped out.
    Everything they had and stood for is up in smoke!’

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17 They said to God, ‘Leave us alone!
    What can the Almighty do to us?’(A)
18 Yet it was he who filled their houses with good things,(B)
    so I stand aloof from the plans of the wicked.(C)
19 The righteous see their ruin and rejoice;(D)
    the innocent mock(E) them, saying,

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