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.
24. Trouble and anguish will make him afraid;they will prevail against him as a king ready to the battle.
25. For he stretches out his hand against God,and strengthens himself against the Almighty.
26. He rushes upon Him, even on His neck,with his thick embossed shield.
27. “He has covered his face with his fatnessand gathered fat upon his waist.