17. By the time they are warm they have been cut off, By its being hot they have been Extinguished from their place.
18. Turn aside do the paths of their way, They ascend into emptiness, and are lost.
19. Passengers of Tema looked expectingly, Travellers of Sheba hoped for them.
20. They were ashamed that one hath trusted, They have come unto it and are confounded.
21. Surely now ye have become the same! Ye see a downfall, and are afraid.
22. Is it because I said, Give to me? And, By your power bribe for me?
23. And, Deliver me from the hand of an adversary? And, From the hand of terrible ones ransom me?
24. Shew me, and I--I keep silent, And what I have erred, let me understand.
25. How powerful have been upright sayings, And what doth reproof from you reprove?
26. For reproof--do you reckon words? And for wind--sayings of the desperate.
27. Anger on the fatherless ye cause to fall, And are strange to your friend.
28. And, now, please, look upon me, Even to your face do I lie?
29. Turn back, I pray you, let it not be perverseness, Yea, turn back again--my righteousness [is] in it.
30. Is there in my tongue perverseness? Discerneth not my palate desirable things?