²⁹ Be ye afraid because of the sword, For furious `are' the punishments of the sword, That ye may know that `there is' a judgment.

⁷ For God do ye speak perverseness? And for Him do ye speak deceit?

⁸ His face do ye accept, if for God ye strive?

⁹ Is `it' good that He doth search you, If, as one mocketh at a man, ye mock at Him?

¹⁰ He doth surely reprove you, if in secret ye accept faces.

¹¹ Doth not His excellency terrify you? And His dread fall upon you?

¹ Let every soul to the higher authorities be subject, for there is no authority except from God, and the authorities existing are appointed by God,

² so that he who is setting himself against the authority, against God's ordinance hath resisted; and those resisting, to themselves shall receive judgment.

³ For those ruling are not a terror to the good works, but to the evil; and dost thou wish not to be afraid of the authority? that which is good be doing, and thou shalt have praise from it,

⁴ for of God it is a ministrant to thee for good; and if that which is evil thou mayest do, be fearing, for not in vain doth it bear the sword; for of God it is a ministrant, an avenger for wrath to him who is doing that which is evil.

¹ `Judge not, that ye may not be judged,

² for in what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged, and in what measure ye measure, it shall be measured to you.

¹⁴ For every work doth God bring into judgment, with every hidden thing, whether good or bad.'

⁹ Rejoice, O young man, in thy childhood, And let thy heart gladden thee in days of thy youth, And walk in the ways of thy heart, And in the sight of thine eyes, And know thou that for all these, Doth God bring thee into judgment.

¹⁰ The righteous rejoiceth that he hath seen vengeance, His steps he washeth in the blood of the wicked.

¹¹ And man saith: `Surely fruit `is' for the righteous: Surely there is a God judging in the earth!'

⁷ And Jehovah to the age abideth, He is preparing for judgment His throne.

⁵ Therefore the wicked rise not in judgment, Nor sinners in the company of the righteous,

⁴ Because of thy reverence Doth He reason `with' thee? He entereth with thee into judgment:

²² He believeth not to return from darkness, And watched `is' he for the sword.

¹¹ Speak not one against another, brethren; he who is speaking against a brother, and is judging his brother, doth speak against law, and doth judge law, and if law thou dost judge, thou art not a doer of law but a judge;

¹² one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy; thou -- who art thou that dost judge the other?