⁷ Wisdom is too high for a fool: He doesn't open his mouth in the gate.

⁶ A scoffer seeks wisdom, and doesn't find it, But knowledge comes easily to a discerning person.

⁵ His ways are prosperous at all times; He is haughty, and your laws are far from his sight: As for all his adversaries, he sneers at them.

¹⁴ Now the natural man doesn't receive the things of God's Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can't know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

¹⁵ Hate evil, love good, And establish justice in the courts. It may be that Yahweh, the God of hosts, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph."

¹² For I know how many your offenses, And how great are your sins-- You who afflict the just, Who take a bribe, And who turn aside the needy in the courts.

¹⁰ They hate him who reproves in the gate, And they abhor him who speaks blamelessly.

²¹ that make a man an offender in [his] cause, and lay a snare for him who reproves in the gate, and turn aside the just with a thing of nothing.

⁸ Open your mouth for the mute, In the cause of all who are left desolate.

⁹ Open your mouth, judge righteously, And serve justice to the poor and needy."

²² Don't exploit the poor, because he is poor; And don't crush the needy in court;

²⁴ Wisdom is before the face of one who has understanding, But the eyes of a fool wander to the ends of the earth.

²⁴ The path of life leads upward for the wise, To keep him from going downward to Sheol.

⁵ How great are your works, Yahweh! Your thoughts are very deep.

⁶ A senseless man doesn't know, Neither does a fool understand this:

²¹ If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, Because I saw my help in the gate:

⁷ When I went forth to the city gate, When I prepared my seat in the street,

⁸ The young men saw me and hid themselves, The aged rose up and stood;

⁹ The princes refrained from talking, And laid their hand on their mouth;

¹⁰ The voice of the nobles was hushed, And their tongue stuck to the roof of their mouth.

¹¹ For when the ear heard me, then it blessed me; And when the eye saw me, it commended me:

¹² Because I delivered the poor who cried, And the fatherless also, who had none to help him.

¹³ The blessing of him who was ready to perish came on me, And I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.

¹⁴ I put on righteousness, and it clothed me. My justice was as a robe and a diadem.

¹⁵ I was eyes to the blind, And feet to the lame.

¹⁶ I was a father to the needy. The cause of him who I didn't know, I searched out.

¹⁷ I broke the jaws of the unrighteous, And plucked the prey out of his teeth.

¹⁸ Then I said, 'I shall die in my own house, I shall number my days as the sand.

¹⁹ My root is spread out to the waters, The dew lies all night on my branch;

²⁰ My glory is fresh in me, My bow is renewed in my hand.'

²¹ "Men listened to me, waited, And kept silence for my counsel.

²² After my words they didn't speak again; My speech fell on them.

²³ They waited for me as for the rain. Their mouths drank as with the spring rain.

²⁴ I smiled on them when they had no confidence. They didn't reject the light of my face.

²⁵ I chose out their way, and sat as chief. I lived as a king in the army, As one who comforts the mourners.

⁴ His children are far from safety, They are crushed in the gate. Neither is there any to deliver them,