¹² “Is not God high in the heavens?
    See the highest stars, how lofty they are!
¹³ Therefore you say, ‘What does God know?
    Can he judge through the deep darkness?^(A)
14 Thick clouds enwrap him, so that he does not see,
    and he walks on the dome of heaven.’
¹⁵ Will you keep to the old way
    that the wicked have trod?
¹⁶ They were snatched away before their time;
    their foundation was washed away by a flood.^(B)
17 They said to God, ‘Leave us alone,’
    and ‘What can the Almighty^[a] do to us?’^[b]
18 Yet he filled their houses with good things—
    but the plans of the wicked are repugnant to me.^(C)
19 The righteous see it and are glad;
    the innocent laugh them to scorn,^(D)
20 saying, ‘Surely our adversaries are cut off,
    and what they left, the fire has consumed.’^(E)