⁶ If you are clean and upright; then he will certainly be moved to take up your cause, and will make clear your righteousness by building up your house again.

¹⁹ In this way we may be certain that we are true, and may give our heart comfort before him,

²⁰ When our heart says that we have done wrong; because God is greater than our heart, and has knowledge of all things.

²¹ My loved ones, if our heart does not say that we have done wrong, we have no fear before him;

²² And he gives us all our requests, because we keep his laws and do the things which are pleasing in his eyes.

⁶ Come up, Lord, in your wrath; be lifted up against my haters; be awake, my God, give orders for the judging.

⁸ It is my desire, then, that in every place men may give themselves to prayer, lifting up holy hands, without wrath or argument.

⁹ Awake! awake! put on strength, O arm of the Lord, awake! as in the old days, in the generations long past. Was it not by you that Rahab was cut in two, and the dragon Wounded?

¹⁰ Happy is the upright man! for he will have joy of the fruit of his ways.

¹⁵ And when your hands are stretched out to me, my eyes will be turned away from you: even though you go on making prayers, I will not give ear: your hands are full of blood.

⁸ The offering of the evil-doer is disgusting to the Lord, but the prayer of the upright man is his delight.

⁴ For no sin of mine they go quickly and get themselves ready; be awake and come to my help, and see.

⁵ You, O Lord God of armies, are the God of Israel; come now and give punishment to the nations; have no mercy on any workers of deceit. (Selah.)

²³ Why are you sleeping, O Lord? awake! and come to our help, do not give us up for ever.

⁵ I have been a hater of the band of wrongdoers, and I will not be seated among sinners.

⁶ I will make my hands clean from sin; so will I go round your altar, O Lord;

²³ If you come back to the Ruler of all, making yourself low before him; if you put evil far away from your tents;

²⁴ And put your gold in the dust, even your gold of Ophir among the rocks of the valleys;

²⁵ Then the Ruler of all will be your gold, and his teaching will be your silver;

²⁶ For then you will have delight in the Ruler of all, and your face will be lifted up to God.

²⁷ You will make your prayer to him, and be answered; and you will give effect to your oaths.

²⁸ Your purposes will come about, and light will be shining on your ways.

²⁹ For God makes low those whose hearts are lifted up, but he is a saviour to the poor in spirit.

³⁰ He makes safe the man who is free from sin, and if your hands are clean, salvation will be yours.

¹⁴ Though they said to God, Go away from us, for we have no desire for the knowledge of your ways.

¹⁵ What is the Ruler of all, that we may give him worship? and what profit is it to us to make prayer to him?

¹⁷ Though my hands have done no violent acts, and my prayer is clean.

²⁴ And you will be certain that your tent is at peace, and after looking over your property you will see that nothing is gone.

⁶ Is not your fear of God your support, and your upright way of life your hope?

⁷ Have you ever seen destruction come to an upright man? or when were the god-fearing ever cut off?

⁸ And the Lord said to the Satan, Have you taken note of my servant Job, for there is no one like him on the earth, a man without sin and upright, fearing God and keeping himself far from evil?