15. Look, He puts no trust in His set-apart ones, and the heavens are not clean in His eyes,
16. how much less one who is loathsome and corrupt, drinking unrighteousness like water!
17. Let me show you – hear me – and this I have seen and declare,
18. which the wise declare, and have not hidden from their fathers,
19. to them alone the land was given, and no stranger passed over into their midst:
20. All the days of the wrong one he is paining himself, and few years have been stored up for the ruthless.
21. A frightening sound is in his ears; in peace a destroyer comes to him.
22. He believes not to return from darkness, and he is reserved for the sword.
23. He wanders about for food – where is it? He knows that a day of darkness is prepared for him.
24. Distress and pain frighten him – they overwhelm him, like a sovereign ready for the attack.
25. Because he has stretched out his hand against Ěl, and acts mightily against the Almighty.
26. He runs against Him defiantly, with thick-bossed shields.
27. For he has covered his face with his fatness, and he has put layers of fat on his loins.
28. But he dwells in ruined cities, in houses which no one lives in, which have been ready to become heaps.
29. He shall not be rich, and his wealth shall not rise, and his possessions shall not overspread the earth.
30. He does not turn away from darkness. The flame dries up his branches, and he turns aside by the breath of His mouth.