^{16 Ref} But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, And that thou hast taken my covenant in thy mouth,

^{17 Ref} Seeing thou hatest instruction, And castest my words behind thee?

^{18 Ref} When thou sawest a thief, thou consentedst with him, And hast been partaker with adulterers.

^{19 Ref} Thou givest thy mouth to evil, And thy tongue frameth deceit.

^{20 Ref} Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; Thou slanderest thine own mother's son.

^{21 Ref} These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; Thou thoughtest that I was altogether such a one as thyself: `But' I will reprove thee, and set `them' in order before thine eyes.

^{22 Ref} Now consider this, ye that forget God, Lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver: