They are corrupt... — This, which is the Rabbinical rendering, is now universally abandoned in favour of another derivation of the verb. The Masoretic arrangement of the clauses may be also improved on:

They scoff and speak of wickedness,

Of violence from their eminence they speak,”

where the first clause means, they speak mockingly of wickedness, or make a jest of sin.

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