4. For there is no regard to their death, nor is there strength in their stripes.
5. They are not in the labour of men: neither shall they be scourged like other men.
6. Therefore pride hath held them fast: they are covered with their iniquity and their wickedness.
7. Their iniquity hath come forth, as it were from fatness: they have passed into the affection of the heart.
8. They have thought and spoken wickedness: they have spoken iniquity on high.
9. They have set their mouth against heaven: and their tongue hath passed through the earth.
10. Therefore will my people return here and full days shall be found in them.
11. And they said: How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the most High?
12. Behold these are sinners; and yet abounding in the world they have obtained riches.
13. And I said: Then have I in vain justified my heart, and washed my hands among the innocent.
14. And I have been scourged all the day; and my chastisement hath been in the mornings.
15. If I said: I will speak thus; behold I should condemn the generation of thy children.