16. But to the wicked God says, “What right have you to recite my statutes and mention my covenant with your mouth,
17. while you yourself hate discipline, and cast my words behind you?
18. When you see a thief, then you are pleased with him, and your association is with adulterers.
19. You give your mouth free rein for evil, and you harness your tongue to deceit.
20. You sit and speak against your brother; you slander your mother’s son.
21. These things you have done, and I have been silent; You imagined that I was just like you. I will rebuke you and present an argument before your eyes.
22. Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you apart, and there will be none to deliver.
23. He who sacrifices a thank offering honors me, and he who orders his way; I will show him the salvation of God.”