11I know all the fowls of the mountains: whatever moveth on the fields is with me.
12If I were hungry, I would not say it to thee; for mine is the world, and what filleth it.
13Do I eat the flesh of fatted bulls, or drink the blood of he-goats?
14Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay unto the Most High thy vows;
15And call on me on the day of distress: I will deliver thee,— and so wilt thou glorify me.”
16But unto the wicked God saith, “What hast thou to do to relate my statutes, and why bearest thou my covenant upon thy mouth?
17And yet thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee.
18When thou seest a thief, then art thou pleased with him, and with adulterers hast thou thy portion.
19Thou lettest loose thy mouth with evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.
20Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; against thy own mother's son thou utterest slander.
21These things hast thou done, and I kept silence: thou didst ween that I am like thyself; but I will reprove thee, and set it in order before thy eyes.”
22Do but reflect on this, ye that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, with none to deliver.
23Whoso offereth thanksgiving glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth his course aright, will I show the salvation of God.