⁴ For they have no pain;
    their bodies are sound and sleek.
⁵ They are not in trouble as others are;
    they are not plagued like other people.^(D)
6 Therefore pride is their necklace;
    violence covers them like a garment.^(E)
7 Their eyes swell out with fatness;
    their hearts overflow with follies.^(F)
8 They scoff and speak with malice;
    loftily they threaten oppression.^(G)
9 They set their mouths against heaven,
    and their tongues range over the earth.

¹⁰ Therefore the people turn and praise them^[a]
    and find no fault in them.^[b]
11 And they say, “How can God know?
    Is there knowledge in the Most High?”^(H)
12 Such are the wicked;
    always at ease, they increase in riches.^(I)
13 All in vain I have kept my heart clean
    and washed my hands in innocence.^(J)
14 For all day long I have been plagued
    and am punished every morning.^(K)

²⁷ Indeed, those who are far from you will perish;
    you put an end to those who are false to you.^(B)
28 But for me it is good to be near God;
    I have made the Lord God my refuge,
    to tell of all your works.^(C)