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.