⁵ “Behold, God is mighty, and doesn’t despise anyone.
    He is mighty in strength of understanding.
⁶ He doesn’t preserve the life of the wicked,
    but gives justice to the afflicted.
⁷ He doesn’t withdraw his eyes from the righteous,
    but with kings on the throne,
    he sets them forever, and they are exalted.
⁸ If they are bound in fetters,
    and are taken in the cords of afflictions,
⁹ then he shows them their work,
    and their transgressions, that they have behaved themselves proudly.
¹⁰ He also opens their ears to instruction,
    and commands that they return from iniquity.
¹¹ If they listen and serve him,
    they will spend their days in prosperity,
    and their years in pleasures.
¹² But if they don’t listen, they will perish by the sword;
    they will die without knowledge.