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Nature and God are reduced to a hard wager, where the safest guess is that divine and natural desire runs opposite to human expectation.

The brevity gives the statement its force, as if long argument has already failed. "Best bet" makes belief sound less devotional than practical, almost like survival advice. Nature and God are joined not as comfort but as a double refusal of what the mind wants.

Four-line coda: your best bet with nature and God is what they want is most likely the opposite of what we think. The idea condensed out.