6. Therefore pride encompasseth them as a neck-chain, violence covereth them as a garment;
7. Their eyes stand out from fatness, they exceed the imaginations of their heart:
8. They mock and speak wickedly of oppression, they speak loftily:
9. They set their mouth in the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth.
10. Therefore his people turn hither, and waters in fulness are wrung out to them.
11. And they say, How can ·God know, and is there knowledge in the Most High?
12. Behold, these are the wicked, and they prosper in the world: they heap up riches.
13. Truly have I purified my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency:
14. For all the day have I been plagued, and chastened every morning.
15. If I said, I will speak thus, behold, I should be faithless to the generation of thy children.
16. When I thought to be able to know this, it was a grievous task in mine eyes;
17. Until I went into the sanctuaries of ·God then understood I their end.
18. Truly thou settest them in slippery places, thou castest them down in ruins.
19. How are they suddenly made desolate! they pass away, consumed with terrors.