¹⁷ These men are mikva’ot without mayim and mists being driven by storms, for whom has been reserved the gloom of choshech (darkness).

¹⁸ Using high sounding words of hevel, they entice, with licentious ta’avot of the basar, the ones barely escaped from those living in toyus (error) and delusion.

¹⁹ They offer them the havtachah (promise) of cherut (freedom), but they themselves are avadim (slaves) of shachat (corruption), for whatever defeats a man also enslaves him.