14 “How can anyone be pure?How can someone born to a woman be good?
15 God places no trust in his holy ones,and even the heavens are not pure in his eyes.
16 How much less pure is one who is terrible and rottenand drinks up evil as if it were water!
17 “Listen to me, and I will tell you about it;I will tell you what I have seen.
18 These are things wise men have told;their ancestors told them, and they have hidden nothing.
19 (The land was given to their fathers only,and no foreigner lived among them.)
20 The wicked suffer pain all their lives;the cruel suffer during all the years saved up for them.