12 Have you not considered that God is higher than the heavens and is lifted above the height of the stars?
13 And you say: "Well, what does God know?" and, "He judges, as if through a fog,"
14 and, "The clouds are his hiding-place," and, "He does not examine us closely," and, "He makes his rounds at the limits of the heavens."
15 Do you not want to tend the path of the ages, which wicked men have spurned?
16 These were taken away before their time, and a flood overthrew their foundation.
17 They said to God, "Withdraw from us," and they treated the Almighty as if he could do nothing,
18 though he had filled their houses with good things. May their way of thinking be far from me.