11. “Are the consolations of God too small for you, a word spoken gently with you?
12. Why does your heart carry you away? And why do your eyes flash,
13. that you turn your spirit against God, and you let such words go out of your mouth?
14. “What is a human being, that he can be clean, or that one born of a woman can be righteous?
15. Look, he does not trust his holy ones, and the heavens are not clean in his eyes.
16. How much less he who is abominable and corrupt, a man drinking wickedness like water.
17. “I will show you, listen to me; and what I have seen, I will tell—
18. what wise men have told, and they have not hidden that which is from their ancestors,
19. to whom alone the land was given, and no stranger passed through their midst.
20. “All of the wicked one’s days he is writhing, even through the number of years that are laid up for the tyrant.
21. Sounds of terror are in his ears; in prosperity the destroyer will come against him.
22. He cannot trust that he will return from darkness, and he himself is destined for the sword.
23. “He is wandering for bread, saying, ‘Where is it?’ He knows that a day of darkness is ready at hand.
24. Anguish and distress terrify him; they overpower him like a king ready for the battle.
25. Because he stretched out his hand against God, and he was arrogant to Shaddai;
26. he stubbornly runs against him with his thick-bossed shield.
27. “Because he has covered his face with his fat and has gathered fat upon his loins,