²⁸ A worthless witness cares nothing for truth—he enjoys his sinning too much.

⁴ Pride, lust, and evil actions^[a] are all sin.

⁷ Because the wicked are unfair, their violence boomerangs and destroys them.

¹⁰ An evil man loves to harm others; being a good neighbor is out of his line.

¹² God, the Righteous One, knows what is going on in the homes of the wicked and will bring the wicked to judgment.

¹⁸ The wicked will finally lose; the righteous will finally win.^[a]

²⁷ God loathes the gifts of evil men, especially if they are trying to bribe him!

²⁹ An evil man is stubborn, but a godly man will reconsider.^[a]

^15-16 O evil man, leave the upright man alone and quit trying to cheat him out of his rights. Don’t you know that this good man, though you trip him up seven times, will each time rise again? But one calamity is enough to lay you low.

^15-16 O evil man, leave the upright man alone and quit trying to cheat him out of his rights. Don’t you know that this good man, though you trip him up seven times, will each time rise again? But one calamity is enough to lay you low.