11. There is none who has binah, there is none who seeks out G-d.
12. All have turned aside, they have become altogether paskudneh, worthless; there is none who does good, there is none, not so much as one.
13. Their throat is an open grave. They use their tongues to deceive. The venom of asps is under their lips,
14. Whose mouth is full of curses and bitterness.
15. Their feet are swift when it comes to shefach dahm.
16. Ruin and wretchedness are in their ways,
17. And the derech Shalom (the way of peace) they have not known.
18. There is no yirat Shomayim (fear of G-d) before their eyes. [See TEHILLIM 13:1-3; 14:1-3; 5:9,10; 139:4; 140:3; 9:28; 10:7; YESHAYAH 59:7 8; TEHILLIM 36:1; MISHLE 1:16; TEHILLIM 35:2.]
19. Now we know that whatever the Torah says, it says to those under the Torah, in order that every mouth might be stopped and kol HaOlam Hazeh become ashem (guilty) and liable to the Mishpat Hashem [TEHILLIM 1:5].
20. For by Ma'asim (Works) of Chok (Law) shall KOL CHAI LO YITZDAK ("all living not be justified" TEHILLIM 143:2), for through the Chok (Law) comes the da'as HaChet (the knowledge of sin), [BERESHIS 3:7].
21. But now, apart from the Chok, the Tzedek Olamim--the Tzidkat Hashem--has been revealed, as attested by the Torah and the Nevi'im,