3. Because I had a zeal on occasion of the wicked, seeing the prosperity of sinners.
4. For there is no regard to their death, nor is there strength in their stripes.
5. They are not in the labour of men: neither shall they be scourged like other men.
6. Therefore pride hath held them fast: they are covered with their iniquity and their wickedness.
7. Their iniquity hath come forth, as it were from fatness: they have passed into the affection of the heart.