13 Evil people enjoy successful livesand then go peacefully to the grave.
14 They say to God, ‘Leave us alone!We don’t want to know your ways.
15 Who is the Almighty that we should serve him?What would we gain by praying to him?’
16 The success of the wicked is not their own doing.Their way of thinking is different from mine.
17 Yet how often are the lamps of evil people turned off?How often does trouble come to them?How often do they suffer God’s angry punishment?
18 How often are they like straw in the windor like chaff that is blown away by a storm?
19 It is said, ‘God saves up a person’s punishment for his children.’But God should punish the wicked themselves so they will know it.