how much less one who is loathsome and corrupt, drinking unrighteousness like water!
Let me show you – hear me – and this I have seen and declare,
Though evil is sweet in his mouth, he hides it under his tongue,
What man is like Iyoḇ, who drinks mocking like water,
How much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like a moth?
Therefore I despise myself, and repent in dust and ashes.”
They have all turned aside; They have together become filthy; No one is doing good, not even one.
A witness of Beliya‛al scorns right-ruling, And the mouth of the wrong ones Devours wickedness.
For we ourselves were also once foolish, disobedient, led astray, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in evil and envy, being hated and hating one another.