14 Offer to God the sacrifice of thanksgiving. Pay your vows to the Most High.
15 Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me."
16 But to the wicked God says, "What right do you have to declare my statutes, That you have taken my covenant on your lips,
17 Seeing you hate instruction, And throw my words behind you?
18 When you saw a thief, you consented with him, And have participated with adulterers.
19 "You give your mouth to evil. Your tongue harnesses deceit.
20 You sit and speak against your brother. You slander your own mother`s son.
