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

^{17 Ref} Seeing thou hatest instruction, and casteth my words behind thee.

^{18 Ref} When thou sawest a thief, then 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 an 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.