14. Offer to God the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and pay your vows to the Most High,
15. And call on Me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you shall honor and glorify Me.
16. But to the wicked, God says: What right have you to recite My statutes or take My covenant or pledge on your lips,
17. Seeing that you hate instruction and correction and cast My words behind you [discarding them]?
18. When you see a thief, you associate with him, and you have taken part with adulterers.
19. You give your mouth to evil, and your tongue frames deceit.
20. You sit and speak against your brother; you slander your own mother's son.