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14 They say to God, “Turn away from us;
    we take no pleasure in knowing your ways;
15     who is the Almighty[a] that we should serve him,
        and what can we gain if we meet him?”
16 Look, isn’t their well-being the work of their own hands?
    A sinner’s logic is beyond me.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 21:15 Heb Shaddai or Mountain One

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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