6. Their pride is like a necklace. They put on meanness as if it were their clothes.
7. Many sins come out of their hard and stubborn hearts. There is no limit to their proud and evil thoughts.
8. They laugh at others and speak words of hatred. They are proud. They warn others about the harm they can do to them.
9. They brag as if they owned heaven itself. They talk as if they controlled the earth.
10. So people listen to them. They lap up their words like water.
11. They say, "How can God know what we're doing? Does the Most High God really know that much?"
12. Here is what sinful people are like. They don't have a care in the world. They keep getting richer and richer.
13. It seems as if I have kept my heart pure without any reason. It didn't do me any good to wash my hands to show that I wasn't guilty of doing anything wrong.
14. Day after day I've been in pain. God has punished me every morning.
15. What if I had said, "I will speak as evil people do"? Then I wouldn't have been faithful to God's children.
16. I tried to understand it all. But it was more than I could handle.
17. It troubled me until I entered God's temple. Then I understood what will happen to bad people in the end.
18. God, I'm sure you will make them slip and fall. You will throw them down and destroy them.
19. It will happen very suddenly. A terrible death will take them away completely.