⁴ Is it because you give him honour that he is sending punishment on you and is judging you?

³ Is it on such a one as this that your eyes are fixed, with the purpose of judging him?

² Let not your servant come before you to be judged; for no man living is upright in your eyes.

¹⁹ To all those who are dear to me, I give sharp words and punishment: then with all your heart have sorrow for your evil ways.

¹⁴ The Lord comes to be the judge of their responsible men and of their rulers: it is you who have made waste the vine-garden, and in your houses is the property of the poor which you have taken by force.

¹⁵ By what right are you crushing my people, and putting a bitter yoke on the necks of the poor? This is the word of the Lord, the Lord of armies.

¹⁴ God will be judge of every work, with every secret thing, good or evil.

³ O Jah, if you took note of every sin, who would go free?

⁴ But there is forgiveness with you, so that you may be feared.

¹⁶ It is burned with fire; it is cut down: they are made waste by the wrath of your face.

⁶ At the voice of your wrath, O God of Jacob, deep sleep has overcome carriage and horse.

¹¹ By the weight of your wrath against man's sin, the glory of his form is wasted away; truly every man is but a breath. (Selah.)

²³ For he does not give man a fixed time to come before him to be judged.

⁶ Would he make use of his great power to overcome me? No, but he would give attention to me.

⁷ There an upright man might put his cause before him; and I would be free for ever from my judge.

²⁹ Be in fear of the sword, for the sword is the punishment for such things, so that you may be certain that there is a judge.

²¹ So that he may give decision for a man in his cause with God, and between a son of man and his neighbour.

³² For he is not a man as I am, that I might give him an answer, that we might come together before a judge.

¹⁹ If it is a question of strength, he says, Here I am! and if it is a question of a cause at law, he says, Who will give me a fixed day?

¹² Am I a sea, or a sea-beast, that you put a watch over me?