7. Their eye bulges from fat. Imaginings overflow their heart.
8. They mock and speak maliciously of oppression; they speak as though from on high.
9. They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue roams the earth.
10. Therefore his people turn there, and abundant waters are slurped up by them.
11. And they say, “How does God know?” and, “Does the Most High have knowledge?”
12. See, these are the wicked, and they increase wealth, ever carefree.
13. Surely in vain I have kept my heart pure, and washed my hands in innocence.
14. And I have been plagued all day and rebuked every morning.
15. If I had said, “I will speak thus,” behold, I would have acted treacherously against your children’s generation.
16. When I thought about how to understand this, it was troubling in my eyes
17. until I went into the sanctuary of God. Then I understood their fate.
18. Surely you set them on slippery places. You cause them to fall onto ruin.