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)