When a wicked person dies, his expectation perishes, and the hope of his strength perishes.

The righteous do not encounter any harm, but the wicked are filled with calamity.

A crooked witness scorns justice, and the mouth of the wicked devours iniquity.

Doing justice brings joy to the righteous and terror to those who do evil.

Those who enact unjust policies are as good as dead, those who are always instituting unfair regulations,

Look, all of them are nothing, their accomplishments are nonexistent; their metal images lack any real substance.

For messengers are coming, heralding disaster, from the city of Dan and from the hills of Ephraim.

For evil does not come up from the dust, nor does trouble spring up from the ground,

For he knows deceitful men; when he sees evil, will he not consider it?

He goes about in company with evildoers, he goes along with wicked men.

But Job will be tested to the end, because his answers are like those of wicked men.

Take heed, do not turn to evil, for because of this you have been tested by affliction.

Arrogant people cannot stand in your presence; you hate all who behave wickedly.

Turn back from me, all you who behave wickedly, for the Lord has heard the sound of my weeping!

His mouth is full of curses and deceptive, harmful words; his tongue injures and destroys.

All those who behave wickedly do not understand – those who devour my people as if they were eating bread, and do not call out to the Lord.

I can see the evildoers! They have fallen! They have been knocked down and are unable to get up!

All those who behave wickedly do not understand – those who devour my people as if they were eating bread, and do not call out to God.

because of what the enemy says, and because of how the wicked pressure me, for they hurl trouble down upon me and angrily attack me.

Day and night they walk around on its walls, while wickedness and destruction are within it.