6. Therefore, they put on pride as a necklace, and violence wraps around them like a garment.
7. Their eyes bulge out from fatness. The imaginations of their hearts run wild.
8. They scoff and wickedly plan evil. From on high they threaten.
9. They set their mouth against heaven. Their tongue struts through the earth.
10. Therefore His people return here, while they drink their fill.
11. So they say: “How does God know? And does Elyon have knowledge?”
12. Behold, such are the wicked— always at ease and amassing wealth.
13. Surely in vain have I kept my heart pure, and washed my hands in innocence.
14. For all day I have been stricken, my chastisement comes every morning.
15. If I had said: “I will speak thus,” surely I would have betrayed a generation of Your children.
16. But when I tried to make sense of this, it was troubling in my eyes—
17. until I entered the Sanctuary of God, and perceived their end.
18. Surely You put them in slippery places. You hurled them down to destruction.
19. How suddenly they became a ruin— terminated, consumed by terrors.
20. Like a dream when one awakes, thus when You arise, my Lord, You will despise their form.