7. Their iniquity hath come forth, as it were from fatness: they have passed into the affection of the heart.
8. They have thought and spoken wickedness: they have spoken iniquity on high.
9. They have set their mouth against heaven: and their tongue hath passed through the earth.
10. Therefore will my people return here and full days shall be found in them.
11. And they said: How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the most High?
12. Behold these are sinners; and yet abounding in the world they have obtained riches.
13. And I said: Then have I in vain justified my heart, and washed my hands among the innocent.
14. And I have been scourged all the day; and my chastisement hath been in the mornings.
15. If I said: I will speak thus; behold I should condemn the generation of thy children.
16. I studied that I might know this thing, it is a labour in my sight:
17. Until I go into the sanctuary of God, and understand concerning their last ends.
18. But indeed for deceits thou hast put it to them: when they were lifted up thou hast cast them down.
19. How are they brought to desolation? they have suddenly ceased to be: they have perished by reason of their iniquity.
20. As the dream of them that awake, O Lord; so in thy city thou shalt bring their image to nothing.
21. For my heart hath been inflamed, and my reins have been changed: