^{9 Ref} They have set in the heavens their mouth, And their tongue walketh in the earth.

^{10 Ref} Therefore do His people return hither, And waters of fulness are wrung out to them.

^{11 Ref} And they have said, `How hath God known? And is there knowledge in the Most High?'

^{12 Ref} Lo, these `are' the wicked and easy ones of the age, They have increased strength.

^{13 Ref} Only -- a vain thing! I have purified my heart, And I wash in innocency my hands,

^{14 Ref} And I am plagued all the day, And my reproof `is' every morning.

^{15 Ref} If I have said, `I recount thus,' Lo, a generation of Thy sons I have deceived.