16  But unto the wicked God saith,

yWhat hast thou to do to declare my statutes,

Or that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth?

17  zSeeing thou hatest instruction,

And acastest my words behind thee.

18  When thou sawest a thief, then thou bconsentedst with him,

And †hast been partaker with adulterers.

19  †Thou givest thy mouth to evil,

And cthy tongue frameth deceit.

20  Thou sittest and dspeakest against thy brother;

Thou slanderest thine own mother’s son.

21  These things hast thou done, and eI kept silence;

fThou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself:

But I will greprove thee, and hset them in order before thine eyes.

22  Now consider this, ye that iforget God,

Lest I tear you in pieces, and there be knone to deliver.

23  lWhoso offereth praise xglorifieth me:

And to him †that ordereth his conversation aright

Will I shew the salvation of God.