³ The integrity of the upright shall guide them:
    but the perverseness of transgressors shall destroy them.

⁵ The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way:
    but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.

⁶ The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them:
    but transgressors shall be taken in their own naughtiness.

⁷ When a wicked man dieth, his expectation shall perish:
    and the hope of unjust men perisheth.

⁸ The righteous is delivered out of trouble,
    and the wicked cometh in his stead.

¹⁰ When it goeth well with the righteous, the city rejoiceth:
    and when the wicked perish, there is shouting.

¹¹ By the blessing of the upright the city is exalted:
    but it is overthrown by the mouth of the wicked.

¹⁸ The wicked worketh a deceitful work:
    but to him that soweth righteousness shall be a sure reward.

¹⁹ As righteousness tendeth to life:
    so he that pursueth evil pursueth it to his own death.

²³ The desire of the righteous is only good:
    but the expectation of the wicked is wrath.

³⁰ The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life;
    and he that winneth souls is wise.

³¹ Behold, the righteous shall be recompensed in the earth:
    much more the wicked and the sinner.