13. suffering wrong as payment for wrongdoing. Thinking daytime revelry a delight, they are stains and defilements as they revel in their deceits while carousing with you.
14. Their eyes are full of adultery and insatiable for sin. They seduce unstable people, and their hearts are trained in greed. Accursed children!
15. Abandoning the straight road, they have gone astray, following the road of Balaam, the son of Bosor, who loved payment for wrongdoing,
16. but he received a rebuke for his own crime: a mute beast spoke with a human voice and restrained the prophet’s madness.
17. These people are waterless springs and mists driven by a gale; for them the gloom of darkness has been reserved.
18. For, talking empty bombast, they seduce with licentious desires of the flesh those who have barely escaped from people who live in error.
19. They promise them freedom, though they themselves are slaves of corruption, for a person is a slave of whatever overcomes him.