^{13 Ref} Your words have been stout against me, saith Jehovah. Yet ye say, What have we spoken against thee?

^{14 Ref} Ye have said, It is vain to serve God; and what profit is it that we have kept his charge, and that we have walked mournfully before Jehovah of hosts?

^{15 Ref} And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are built up; yea, they tempt God, and escape.

^{16 Ref} Then they that feared Jehovah spake one with another; and Jehovah hearkened, and heard, and a book of remembrance was written before him, for them that feared Jehovah, and that thought upon his name.