<p class="poetry">Does God pervert<n id="1" /> justice?<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Or does the Almighty pervert<n id="3" /> what is right?p>

<p class="poetry">to defraud a person in a lawsuit &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">the Lord<n id="1" /> does not approve<n id="2" /> of such things!p>

<p class="poetry">know<n id="1" /> then that God has wronged me<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and encircled<n id="3" /> me with his net.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">May the arrogant be humiliated, for they have slandered me!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">But I meditate on your precepts.p>

<p class="poetry">What is bent<n id="1" /> cannot be straightened,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and what is missing<n id="3" /> cannot be supplied.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">Indeed, in truth, God does not act wickedly,p> <p class="poetry">and the Almighty does not pervert justice.p>

<p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc> protects those residing outside their native land;p> <p class="poetry">he lifts up the fatherless and the widow,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">but he opposes the wicked.<n id="2" />p>

<t /><p class="poetry">Consider the work of God:p> <p class="poetry">For who can make straight what he has bent?p>

<p class="poetry">when those who keep watch over the house<n id="1" /> begin to tremble,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and the virile men begin to stoop over,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">and the grinders<n id="4" /> begin to cease because they grow few,p> <p class="poetry">and those who look through the windows grow dim,<n id="5" />p>

<p class="poetry">You say,p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;When will the new moon festival<n id="1" /> be over,<n id="2" /> so we can sell grain?p> <p class="poetry">When will the Sabbath end,<n id="3" /> so we can open up the grain bins?<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">We&#8217;re eager<n id="5" /> to sell less for a higher price,<n id="6" />p> <p class="poetry">and to cheat the buyer with rigged scales!<n id="7" />p>