² A good man shall obtain favor of Jehovah; But a man of wicked devices will he condemn.

³⁵ For whoso findeth me findeth life, And shall obtain favor of Jehovah.

¹⁵ The nations are sunk down in the pit that they made: In the net which they hid is their own foot taken.

⁵ Well is it with the man that dealeth graciously and lendeth; He shall maintain his cause in judgment.

³¹ Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, And be filled with their own devices.

¹⁸ A heart that deviseth wicked purposes, Feet that are swift in running to mischief,

⁸ There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he power over the day of death; and there is no discharge in war: neither shall wickedness deliver him that is given to it.

⁵ The fool shall be no more called noble, nor the churl said to be bountiful.

⁶ For the fool will speak folly, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise profaneness, and to utter error against Jehovah, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and to cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.

⁷ And the instruments of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the meek with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right.

²⁴ for he was a good man, and full of the Holy Spirit and of faith: and much people was added unto the Lord.

⁷ For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: for peradventure for the good man some one would even dare to die.