10. Both the greyheaded and the aged are with us, older than thy father.
11. Are the consolations of ·God too small for thee? and the word gently spoken to thee?
12. Why doth thy heart carry thee away? and why do thine eyes wink?
13. That thou turnest thy spirit against ·God and lettest words go out of thy mouth?
14. What is man, that he should be pure? and he that is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
15. Behold, he putteth no trust in his holy ones, and the heavens are not pure in his sight:
16. How much less the abominable and corrupt, --man, that drinketh unrighteousness like water!
17. I will shew thee, listen to me; and what I have seen I will declare;
18. Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hidden;
19. Unto whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them.
20. All his days the wicked man is tormented, and numbered years are allotted to the violent.
21. The sound of terrors is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer cometh upon him.
22. He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is singled out for the sword.
23. He wandereth abroad for bread, --where may it be? 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 for the battle.
25. For he hath stretched out his hand against ·God and strengthened himself against the Almighty: