⁴ They utter mere words;
    with empty oaths they make covenants;
so litigation springs up like poisonous weeds
    in the furrows of the field.^(A)

¹² Do horses run on rocky crags?
    Does one plow the sea with oxen?^[a]
But you have turned justice into poison
    and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood,^(A)