11. If they hearken and serve him, they shall spend their days in prosperity, and their years in pleasures.
12. But if they hearken not, they shall perish by the sword, and they shall die without knowledge.
13. But they that are godless in heart lay up anger: they cry not for help when he bindeth them.
14. They die in youth, and their life perisheth among the unclean.
15. He delivereth the afflicted by his affliction, and openeth their ear in oppression.
16. Yea, he would have led thee away out of distress into a broad place, where there is no straitness; and that which is set on thy table should be full of fatness.
17. But thou art full of the judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold on thee.