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14 They say to God, ‘Leave us alone!
    We don’t care what you want us to do!’
15 And they say, ‘Who is God All-Powerful?
    We don’t need to serve him!
    It will not help to pray to him!’

16 “Of course, evil people don’t make their own success.
    I would never follow their advice.

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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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