²⁸ This also would have been [a heinous and principal] iniquity to demand the judges’ action and punishment, for I would have denied and been false to the God Who is above.^(A)

²⁹ If I rejoiced at the destruction of him who hated me or lifted myself up [in malicious triumph] when evil overtook him—

³⁰ No, I have let my mouth sin neither by cursing my enemy nor by praying that he might die—