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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.
17 But how often does God blow out their light?
    How often does trouble come to them?
    How often does God get angry with them and punish them?

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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)

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15 What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?

16 Lo, their good is not in their hand: the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

17 How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and how oft cometh their destruction upon them! God distributeth sorrows in his anger.

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