^{12 Ref} Art not Thou of old, O Jehovah, my God, my Holy One? We do not die, O Jehovah, For judgment Thou hast appointed it, And, O Rock, for reproof Thou hast founded it.

^{13 Ref} Purer of eyes than to behold evil, To look on perverseness Thou art not able, Why dost Thou behold the treacherous? Thou keepest silent when the wicked Doth swallow the more righteous than he,

^{14 Ref} And Thou makest man as fishes of the sea, As a creeping thing -- none ruling over him.

^{15 Ref} Each of them with a hook he hath brought up, He doth catch it in his net, and gathereth it in his drag, Therefore he doth joy and rejoice.

^{16 Ref} Therefore he doth sacrifice to his net, And doth make perfume to his drag, For by them `is' his portion fertile, and his food fat.

^{17 Ref} Doth he therefore empty his net, And continually to slay nations spare not?