¹⁶ They were snatched away before their time;
    their foundations were swept away by a flood.^[a]
17 They had said to God, ‘Leave us alone!’
    and thought, ‘What can the Almighty do to us?’
¹⁸ “Yet it was he who filled their houses with good things,
    even though his plans and theirs were diametrically opposed.