14. “How can man be pure?How can a person born to a woman be good?
15. God places no trust in his holy ones.Even the heavens are not pure in his eyes.
16. And man is even less than they are. He is terrible and rotten.He drinks up evil as if it were water!
17. “Job, listen to me, and I will tell you about it.I will tell you what I have seen.
18. These are things wise men have told.Their ancestors told them these things, and they have hidden nothing.
19. (The land was given to their fathers only.No foreigner lived among them.)
20. The evil man suffers pain all his life.The cruel man suffers during all the years saved up for him.
21. Terrible sounds fill his ears.When things seem to be going well, robbers attack him.