¹² Yea, truly, God doth not do wickedly, And the Mighty doth not pervert judgment.

³ Doth God pervert judgment? And doth the Mighty One pervert justice?

⁷ For righteous `is' Jehovah, Righteousness He hath loved, The upright doth His countenance see!'

¹⁷ Righteous `is' Jehovah in all His ways, And kind in all His works.

¹² Art not Thou of old, O Jehovah, my God, my Holy One? We do not die, O Jehovah, For judgment Thou hast appointed it, And, O Rock, for reproof Thou hast founded it.

¹³ Purer of eyes than to behold evil, To look on perverseness Thou art not able, Why dost Thou behold the treacherous? Thou keepest silent when the wicked Doth swallow the more righteous than he,