Those who hate you will be clothed with shame, and the tent of the wicked will be no more.”

They reap fodder in the field, and glean in the vineyard of the wicked.

“May my enemy be like the wicked, my adversary like the unrighteous.

who says to a king, ‘Worthless man’ and to nobles, ‘Wicked men,’

He strikes them for their wickedness, in a place where people can see,

He does not allow the wicked to live, but he gives justice to the poor.

But now you are preoccupied with the judgment due the wicked, judgment and justice take hold of you.

that it might seize the corners of the earth, and shake the wicked out of it?

Then from the wicked the light is withheld, and the arm raised in violence is broken.

There the wicked cease from turmoil, and there the weary are at rest.

God abandons me to evil men, and throws me into the hands of wicked men.

“Yes, the lamp of the wicked is extinguished; his flame of fire does not shine.

that the elation of the wicked is brief, the joy of the godless lasts but a moment.

Such is the lot God allots the wicked, and the heritage of his appointment from God.”

“Why do the wicked go on living, grow old, even increase in power?

But their prosperity is not their own doing. The counsel of the wicked is far from me!

But it was he who filled their houses with good things – yet the counsel of the wicked was far from me.

Look at every proud man and abase him; crush the wicked on the spot!

“It is all one! That is why I say, ‘He destroys the blameless and the guilty.’

If a land has been given into the hand of a wicked man, he covers the faces of its judges; if it is not he, then who is it?