46. because those who toil, toil for no reason.
47. Foreigners will gather their fruits, plunder their wealth, knock down their houses, and take their children captive, for in captivity and hunger they will produce their offspring.
48. Those who transact business do so only to be plundered. The longer they adorn their cities and houses, possessions and persons,
49. the more I will be enraged against them on account of their sins, says the Lord.
50. Just as a proper and good woman is enraged at a woman who is promiscuous,
51. so justice will be enraged against sin when it tries to make itself beautiful, and will accuse it to its face since he who defends will come, hunting up sins on the earth.
52. Therefore, don’t be like it or its ways.
53. Look, just a little longer and sin will be removed from the earth and justice will rule over us.
54. Let sinners not deny that they have sinned, for God will burn coals of fire over the head of those who say, "I haven’t sinned before God and his glory."
55. Look, the Lord knows all the works of humanity, their devices, their plotting, and their hearts.
56. He said, "Let the earth be made," and it was made; "Let heaven be made" and it was made.
57. At his word the stars were established, and he knows their number.
58. He examines the abyss and its treasuries. He measures the sea and its contents.
59. He shut up the sea in the midst of the waters and suspended the earth over the waters by his word.
60. He stretched out the heaven like a vaulted ceiling and sank its pillars into the waters.