^{13 Ref} Hard against Me have been your words, Said Jehovah, and ye have said: `What have we spoken against Thee?'

^{14 Ref} Ye have said, `A vain thing to serve God! And what gain when we kept His charge? And when we have gone in black, Because of Jehovah of Hosts?

^{15 Ref} And now, we are declaring the proud happy, Yea, built up have been those doing wickedness, Yea they have tempted God, and escape.'