¹⁵ Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him?
    What would we gain by praying to him?’^(A)
16 But their prosperity is not in their own hands,
    so I stand aloof from the plans of the wicked.^(B)

¹⁷ “Yet how often is the lamp of the wicked snuffed out?^(C)
    How often does calamity^(D) come upon them,
    the fate God allots in his anger?^(E)