⁶ But all the wicked are like thorns raked aside;
they can never be picked up by hand.

⁴ The best of them is like a brier;^(A)
the most upright is worse than a hedge of thorns.^(B)
The day of your watchmen,
the day of your punishment, is coming;^(C)
at this time their panic is here.^(D)