16. How much more abhorred and corrupt is man,who drinks iniquity like water!
17. “I will tell you; hear me,and what I have seen I will declare,
18. what wise men have told,not hiding anything received from their fathers,
19. to whom alone the land was given,and no foreigner passed among them:
20. The wicked man travails with pain all his days,and numbered are the years stored up for the oppressor.
21. A dreadful sound is in his ears;in prosperity the destroyer will come upon him.
22. He does not believe that he will return from darkness,and a sword awaits him.
23. He wanders about for bread, saying, ‘Where is it?’He knows that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.