¹⁰ Yet these people slander whatever they do not understand, and the very things they do understand by instinct—as irrational animals do—will destroy them.^(A)

¹¹ Woe to them! They have taken the way of Cain;^(B) they have rushed for profit into Balaam’s error;^(C) they have been destroyed in Korah’s rebellion.^(D)

¹² These people are blemishes at your love feasts,^(E) eating with you without the slightest qualm—shepherds who feed only themselves.^(F) They are clouds without rain,^(G) blown along by the wind;^(H) autumn trees, without fruit and uprooted^(I)—twice dead.