5They are not in the troubles of other men; and they shall not be scourged with other men.
6Therefore pride has possessed them; they have clothed themselves with their injustice and ungodliness.
7Their injustice shall go forth as out of fatness: they have fulfilled their intention.
8They have taken counsel and spoken in wickedness: they have uttered unrighteousness loftily.
9They have set their mouth against heaven, and their tongue has gone through upon the earth.
10Therefore shall my people return hither: and full days shall be found with them.
11And they said, How does God know? and is there knowledge in the Most High?
12Behold, these are the sinners, and they that prosper always: they have possessed wealth.
13And I said, Verily in vain have I justified my heart, and washed my hands in innocency.
14For I was plagued all the day, and my reproof was every morning.
15If I said, I will speak thus; behold, I should have broken covenant with the generation of thy children.
16And I undertook to understand this, but it is too hard for me,