10  Both the gray-haired and the aged are among us,

older than your father.

11  Are the comforts of God too small for you,

or the word that deals gently with you?

12  Why does your heart carry you away,

and why do your eyes flash,

13  that you turn your spirit against God

and bring such words out of your mouth?

14  ^cWhat is man, that he can be pure?

Or he who is born of a woman, ^dthat he can be righteous?

15  Behold, God^{1 e}puts no trust in his holy ones,

and the heavens are not pure in his sight;

16  ^fhow much less one who is abominable and corrupt,

a man who ^gdrinks injustice like water!

17  “I will show you; hear me,

and what I have seen I will declare

18  (what wise men have told,

without hiding it from their fathers,

19  to whom alone the land was given,

and no stranger passed among them).

20  The wicked man writhes in pain all his days,

through all the years that are laid up for the ruthless.