¹⁵ Who is ·the Almighty [Shaddai] that we should serve him?
    What would we gain by ·praying to [interceding with] him?’
¹⁶ ·The success of the wicked is not their own doing [or Is not the success/prosperity of the wicked in their control/hand?].
    Their ·way of thinking [plan; counsel] is ·different [far] from ·mine [or his; ^Cthat is, God’s].
¹⁷ Yet how often are the lamps of evil people ·turned off [extinguished; ^Cthe implied answer is not often; Job questions the type of teaching found in Proverbs; Prov. 24:19–20]?
    How often does ·trouble [calamity] come to them [Prov. 24:21–22]?
    How often ·do they suffer God’s angry punishment [^Ldoes he deal out pain in his anger]?