⁶ But evil men are all to be cast aside like thorns,^(A)
    which are not gathered with the hand.

⁷ Whoever touches thorns
    uses a tool of iron or the shaft of a spear;
    they are burned up where they lie.”

¹⁸ Surely wickedness burns like a fire;^(A)
    it consumes briers and thorns,^(B)
it sets the forest thickets ablaze,^(C)
    so that it rolls upward in a column of smoke.

²⁸ They are all hardened rebels,^(A)
    going about to slander.^(B)
They are bronze and iron;^(C)
    they all act corruptly.