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14 They say to God, “Leave us alone!
    We do not want to know about your ways.
15 We do not need to serve the Almighty God.
If we pray to him,
    there is nothing he can do to help us.”
16 They think that they have made themselves rich.
    But it is not true.
So I do not listen to the things that wicked people say.

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14 Yet they say to God, ‘Leave us alone!(A)
    We have no desire to know your ways.(B)
15 Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him?
    What would we gain by praying to him?’(C)
16 But their prosperity is not in their own hands,
    so I stand aloof from the plans of the wicked.(D)

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