¹ -- A Psalm of Asaph. God hath stood in the company of God, In the midst God doth judge.

⁶ and saith unto the judges, `See what ye are doing -- for not for man do ye judge, but for Jehovah, who `is' with you in the matter of judgment;

⁷ and now, let fear of Jehovah be upon you, observe and do, for there is not with Jehovah our God perverseness, and acceptance of faces, and taking of a bribe.'

⁸ If oppression of the poor, and violent taking away of judgment and righteousness thou seest in a province, do not marvel at the matter, for a higher than the high is observing, and high ones `are' over them.

¹³ Jehovah hath stood up to plead, And He is standing to judge the peoples.

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

²⁸ `God thou dost not revile, and a prince among thy people thou dost not curse.

⁶ then hath his lord brought him nigh unto God, and hath brought him nigh unto the door, or unto the side-post, and his lord hath bored his ear with an awl, and he hath served him -- to the age.

³⁵ if them he did call gods unto whom the word of God came, (and the Writing is not able to be broken,)

¹ By David. I confess Thee, with all my heart, Before the gods I do praise Thee.

⁶ I -- I have said, `Gods ye `are', And sons of the Most High -- all of you,

⁷ But as man ye die, and as one of the heads ye fall,

²¹ `And thou -- thou dost provide out of all the people men of ability, fearing God, men of truth, hating dishonest gain, and hast placed `these' over them, heads of thousands, heads of hundreds, heads of fifties, and heads of tens,