¹⁷ How may a hater of right be a ruler? and will you say that the upright Ruler of all is evil?

³ The God of Israel said, the word of the Rock of Israel came to me: When an upright king is ruling over men, when he is ruling in the fear of God,

⁸ Let them be covered together in the dust; let their faces be dark in the secret place of the underworld.

²⁵ Let such a thing be far from you, to put the upright to death with the sinner: will not the judge of all the earth do right?

²¹ But Abishai, the son of Zeruiah, said, Is not death the right fate for Shimei, because he has been cursing the one marked by the holy oil?

²² In all this Job did no sin, and did not say that God's acts were foolish.

⁵ But if the righteousness of God is supported by our wrongdoing what is to be said? is it wrong for God to be angry (as men may say)?

⁶ In no way: because if it is so, how is God able to be the judge of all the world?

⁷ But if, because I am untrue, God being seen to be true gets more glory, why am I to be judged as a sinner?

¹⁴ What may we say then? is God not upright? let it not be said.