You prove to be reliable to one who is blameless, but you prove to be deceptive to one who is perverse.

Helez the Paltite, Ira son of Ikkesh from Tekoa,

Ira son of Ikkesh the Tekoite, Abiezer the Anathothite,

His people have been unfaithful to him; they have not acted like his children – this is their sin. They are a perverse and deceitful generation.

You prove to be reliable to one who is blameless, but you prove to be deceptive to one who is perverse.

I will have nothing to do with a perverse person; I will not permit evil.

Thorns and snares are in the path of the perverse, but the one who guards himself keeps far from them.

The sixth, assigned the sixth month, was Ira son of Ikkesh the Tekoite. His division consisted of 24,000 men.

The one who has a perverse heart does not find good, and the one who is deceitful in speech falls into trouble.