¹⁴ By your hand save me from such people, Lord,
    from those of this world^(A) whose reward is in this life.^(B)
May what you have stored up for the wicked fill their bellies;
    may their children gorge themselves on it,
    and may there be leftovers^(C) for their little ones.

⁷ From their callous hearts^(A) comes iniquity^[a];
    their evil imaginations have no limits.

⁹ Their homes are safe and free from fear;^(A)
    the rod of God is not on them.^(B)
10 Their bulls never fail to breed;
    their cows calve and do not miscarry.^(C)
11 They send forth their children as a flock;^(D)
    their little ones dance about.
¹² They sing to the music of timbrel and lyre;^(E)
    they make merry to the sound of the pipe.^(F)
13 They spend their years in prosperity^(G)
    and go down to the grave^(H) in peace.^[a](I)
14 Yet they say to God, ‘Leave us alone!^(J)
    We have no desire to know your ways.^(K)
15 Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him?
    What would we gain by praying to him?’^(L)

² Our inheritance^(A) has been turned over to strangers,^(B)
    our homes^(C) to foreigners.^(D)

⁶ “Surely everyone goes around^(A) like a mere phantom;^(B)
    in vain they rush about,^(C) heaping up wealth^(D)
    without knowing whose it will finally be.^(E)