May integrity and godliness protect me, for I rely on you!

They are forever firm, and should be faithfully and properly carried out.

צ (Tsade) You are just, O Lord, and your judgments are fair.

The Lord is both kind and fair; that is why he teaches sinners the right way to live.

Now Michal, Saul’s daughter, loved David. When they told Saul about this, it pleased him.

if you become pure and upright, even now he will rouse himself for you, and will restore your righteous abode.

That person sings to others, saying: ‘I have sinned and falsified what is right, but I was not punished according to what I deserved.

A wicked person shows boldness with his face, but as for the upright, he discerns his ways.

As for the Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are just. He is a reliable God who is never unjust, he is fair and upright.

So his servants told David these things and David agreed to become the king’s son-in-law. Now the specified time had not yet expired

There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job. And that man was pure and upright, one who feared God and turned away from evil.

Faithful men have disappeared from the land; there are no godly men left. They all wait in ambush so they can shed blood; they hunt their own brother with a net.

So the Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one like him on the earth, a pure and upright man, one who fears God and turns away from evil.”

Then the Lord said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? For there is no one like him on the earth, a pure and upright man, one who fears God and turns away from evil. And he still holds firmly to his integrity, so that you stirred me up to destroy him without reason.”