15. Behold, he putteth no trust in his holy ones; Yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight:
16. How much less one that is abominable and corrupt, A man that drinketh iniquity like water!
17. I will show thee, hear thou me; And that which I have seen I will declare:
18. (Which wise men have told From their fathers, and have not hid it;
19. Unto whom alone the land was given, And no stranger passed among them):
20. The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, Even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor.
21. A sound of terrors is in his ears; In prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.
22. He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, And he is waited for of the sword.
23. He wandereth abroad for bread, saying, Where is it? He knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.
24. Distress and anguish make him afraid; They prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.
25. Because he hath stretched out his hand against God, And behaveth himself proudly against the Almighty;
26. He runneth upon him with a stiff neck, With the thick bosses of his bucklers;
27. Because he hath covered his face with his fatness, And gathered fat upon his loins;
28. And he hath dwelt in desolate cities, In houses which no man inhabited, Which were ready to become heaps;
29. He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, Neither shall their possessions be extended on the earth.
30. He shall not depart out of darkness; The flame shall dry up his branches, And by the breath of God’s mouth shall he go away.
31. Let him not trust in vanity, deceiving himself; For vanity shall be his recompense.