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For they suffer no violent pangs in their death, but their strength is firm.

They are not in trouble as other men; neither are they smitten and plagued like other men.

Therefore pride is about their necks like a chain; violence covers them like a garment [like a long, luxurious robe].

Their eyes stand out with fatness, they have more than heart could wish; and the imaginations of their minds overflow [with follies].

They scoff, and wickedly utter oppression; they speak loftily [from on high, maliciously and blasphemously].

They set their mouths against and speak down from heaven, and their tongues swagger through the earth [invading even heaven with blasphemy and smearing earth with slanders].(A)

10 Therefore His people return here, and waters of a full cup [offered by the wicked] are [blindly] drained by them.

11 And they say, How does God know? Is there knowledge in the Most High?

12 Behold, these are the ungodly, who always prosper and are at ease in the world; they increase in riches.

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