14. What is man, that he should be clean? and he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
15. Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yes, the heavens are not clean in his sight.
16. How much more abominable and filthy is man, who drinketh iniquity like water?
17. I will show thee, hear me; and that which I have seen, I will declare;
18. Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it:
19. To whom alone the earth was given, and no stranger passed among them.
20. The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor.
21. A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.
22. He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for by the sword.