⁶ Righteousness keeps safe him whose way is without error, but evil-doers are overturned by sin.

³ The righteousness of the upright will be their guide, but the twisted ways of the false will be their destruction.

⁵ The righteousness of the good man will make his way straight, but the sin of the evil-doer will be the cause of his fall.

⁶ The righteousness of the upright will be their salvation, but the false will themselves be taken in their evil designs.

²³ For he made offerings to the gods of Damascus, who were attacking him, and said, Because the gods of the kings of Aram are giving them help, I will make offerings to them so that they may give me help. But they were the cause of his downfall, and of that of all Israel.

² He who goes on his way uprightly, doing righteousness, and saying what is true in his heart;

²¹ For my clean and upright ways keep me safe, because my hope is in you.

¹ <Of David.> O Lord, be my judge, for my behaviour has been upright: I have put my faith in the Lord, I am not in danger of slipping.

¹¹ Let not a man of evil tongue be safe on earth: let destruction overtake the violent man with blow on blow.

²² The evil-doer will be taken in the net of his crimes, and prisoned in the cords of his sin.

¹² The Upright One, looking on the house of the evil-doer, lets sinners be overturned to their destruction.