12. Why doth thine lev carry thee away? And why do thy eyes flash,
13. That thou ventest thy ruach against El (G-d), and lettest such words pour out of thy mouth?
14. What is enosh, that he should be pure [in the sight of Hashem]? And he which is born of an isha, that yitzdak (he should be in the right)?
15. If He trusteth not His Kadoshim; yea, Shomayim is not pure in His eyes.
16. How much more vile and corrupt is ish, which drinketh iniquity like mayim?
17. I will show thee, shema to me; and that which I have seen I will declare;
18. Things which chachamim declare from their avot without concealment;
19. Unto whom alone ha'aretz was given, and no zar passed among them.
20. The reshah travaileth with pain all his yamim, and numbered shanim are reserved for the oppressor.
21. A dreadful sound is in his oznayim; during shalom the shoded (destroyer) shall come upon him.
22. He believeth not in a return from choshech, and he is marked for the cherev.