^{12 Ref} Are you not eternal, O Lord my God, my Holy One? for you there is no death. O Lord, he has been ordered by you for our punishment; and by you, O Rock, he has been marked out to put us right.

^{13 Ref} Before your holy eyes sin may not be seen, and you are unable to put up with wrong; why, then, are your eyes on the false? why do you say nothing when the evil-doer puts an end to one who is more upright than himself?

^{14 Ref} He has made men like the fishes of the sea, like the worms which have no ruler over them.

^{15 Ref} He takes them all up with his hook, he takes them in his net, getting them together in his fishing-net: for which cause he is glad and full of joy.

^{16 Ref} For this reason he makes an offering to his net, burning perfume to his fishing-net; because by them he gets much food and his meat is fat.

^{17 Ref} For this cause his net is ever open, and there is no end to his destruction of the nations.