16. But to the wicked God says:“What right have you to declare My statutes,Or take My covenant in your mouth,
17. Seeing you hate instructionAnd cast My words behind you?
18. When you saw a thief, you consented with him,And have been a partaker with adulterers.
19. You give your mouth to evil,And your tongue frames deceit.
20. You sit and speak against your brother;You slander your own mother’s son.
21. These things you have done, and I kept silent;You thought that I was altogether like you;But I will rebuke you,And set them in order before your eyes.
22. “Now consider this, you who forget God,Lest I tear you in pieces,And there be none to deliver:
23. Whoever offers praise glorifies Me;And to him who orders his conduct arightI will show the salvation of God.”