²⁶ ¶ It is certainly not good to condemn the just, nor to smite princes for doing that which is upright.

⁵ ¶ To respect the person of the wicked so that the righteous loses that which is rightfully his is not good.

⁸ ¶ The way of the perverse man is crooked and strange, but as for the pure, his work is right.