5. They are not in trouble as others are;they are not stricken like the rest of mankind.
6. Therefore pride is their necklace;violence covers them as a garment.
7. Their eyes swell out through fatness;their hearts overflow with follies.
8. They scoff and speak with malice;loftily they threaten oppression.
9. They set their mouths against the heavens,and their tongue struts through the earth.
10. Therefore his people turn back to them,and find no fault in them.
11. And they say, “How can God know?Is there knowledge in the Most High?”
12. Behold, these are the wicked;always at ease, they increase in riches.
13. All in vain have I kept my heart cleanand washed my hands in innocence.
14. For all the day long I have been strickenand rebuked every morning.
15. If I had said, “I will speak thus,”I would have betrayed the generation of your children.
16. But when I thought how to understand this,it seemed to me a wearisome task,
17. until I went into the sanctuary of God;then I discerned their end.
18. Truly you set them in slippery places;you make them fall to ruin.
19. How they are destroyed in a moment,swept away utterly by terrors!
20. Like a dream when one awakes,O Lord, when you rouse yourself, you despise them as phantoms.
21. When my soul was embittered,when I was pricked in heart,
22. I was brutish and ignorant;I was like a beast toward you.