11. Are the comforts of Ěl not enough for you – and a word that deals gently with you?
12. What have you taken to heart? And why do your eyes flash?
13. That you should turn your spirit against Ěl, and let such words go out of your mouth?
14. What is man, that he should be clean? And one born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
15. Look, He puts no trust in His set-apart ones, and the heavens are not clean in His eyes,
16. how much less one who is loathsome and corrupt, drinking unrighteousness like water!
17. Let me show you – hear me – and this I have seen and declare,
18. which the wise declare, and have not hidden from their fathers,