He made the moon to mark the months, and the sun sets according to a regular schedule.

They say, “How does God know what we do? Is the sovereign one aware of what goes on?”

The Lord says, “Because he is devoted to me, I will deliver him; I will protect him because he is loyal to me.

The Lord knows that peoples’ thoughts are morally bankrupt.

For he knows what we are made of; he realizes we are made of clay.

Let destruction take them by surprise! Let the net they hid catch them! Let them fall into destruction!

would not God discover it, for he knows one’s thoughts?

We do not see any signs of God’s presence; there are no longer any prophets and we have no one to tell us how long this will last.

The spiritually insensitive do not recognize this; the fool does not understand this.

Surely people go through life as mere ghosts. Surely they accumulate worthless wealth without knowing who will eventually haul it away.”