12. Why does your heart exalt you, and why do you gaze with your eyes, as if thinking great things?
13. Why does your spirit stir against God, so as to utter such speeches from your mouth?
14. What is man that he should be immaculate, and that he should appear just, having been born of woman?
15. Behold, among his holy ones not one is immutable, and even the heavens are not pure in his sight.
16. How much more abominable and useless is the man who drinks as if from the water of iniquity?
17. I will reveal to you, so listen to me; and I will explain to you what I have seen.
18. The wise acknowledge, and they do not leave behind, their fathers,
19. to whom alone the earth has been given, and no stranger passed among them.
20. The impious is arrogant for all his days, and the number of the years of his tyranny is uncertain.
21. The sound of terror is always in his ears; and when there is peace, he always suspects treason.
22. He does not believe that it is possible for him to be turned from darkness into the light, for he sees around him the sword on every side.
23. When he moves himself to seek bread, he knows that the day of darkness has been prepared for his hand.