²³ Abraham drew near, and said, "Will you consume the righteous with the wicked?

²² They fell on their faces, and said, God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and will you be angry with all the congregation?

¹⁷ David spoke to Yahweh when he saw the angel who struck the people, and said, Behold, I have sinned, and I have done perversely; but these sheep, what have they done? Please let your hand be against me, and against my father's house.

⁴ Now Abimelech had not come near her. He said, "Lord, will you kill even a righteous nation?

⁴ Yahweh is in his holy temple. Yahweh is on his throne in heaven. His eyes observe. His eyes examine the children of men.

⁵ Yahweh examines the righteous, But the wicked and him who loves violence his soul hates.

⁶ On the wicked he will rain blazing coals; Fire, sulfur, and scorching wind shall be the portion of their cup.

⁷ For Yahweh is righteous. He loves righteousness. The upright shall see his face.

¹⁷ Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it didn't rain on the earth for three years and six months.

²² let's draw near with a true heart in fullness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having our body washed with pure water,

⁵ But if our unrighteousness commends the righteousness of God, what will we say? Is God unrighteous who inflicts wrath? I speak like men do.

⁶ May it never be! For then how will God judge the world?

²¹ Their prince shall be of themselves, and their ruler shall proceed from the midst of them; and I will cause him to draw near, and he shall approach to me: for who is he who has had boldness to approach to me? says Yahweh.

²⁸ But it is good for me to come close to God. I have made the Lord Yahweh my refuge, That I may tell of all your works.

¹⁷ Shall even one who hates justice govern? Will you condemn him who is righteous and mighty?--

³ Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert righteousness?

²⁵ Be it far from you to do things like that, to kill the righteous with the wicked, that so the righteous should be as the wicked. May that be far from you. Shouldn't the Judge of all the earth do right?"