⁸ That they may keep the ways of judgment: and he preserveth the way of his Saints).

⁹ Then shalt thou understand righteousness and judgment, and equity, and every good path.

²⁰ I cause to walk in the way of righteousness, and in the midst of the paths of ^[a]judgment,

⁵ The thoughts of the just are right: but the counsels of the wicked are deceitful.

²³ Much food is in the field of the ^[a]poor, but the field is destroyed without discretion.

¹⁰ A divine sentence shall be in the lips of the king: his mouth shall not transgress in judgment.

^11 (A)A true weight and balance are of the Lord: and the weights of the bag are his ^[a]work.

¹² It is an abomination to kings to commit wickedness: for the throne is stablished ^[b]by justice.

^15 (A)He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just, even they both are abomination to the Lord.

²³ A wicked man taketh a gift out of the ^[a]bosom to wrest the ways of judgment.

²⁶ Surely it is not good to condemn the just, nor that the princes should smite such ^[a]for equity.

⁵ It is not good to ^[a]accept the person of the wicked, to cause the righteous to fall in judgment.

²⁸ A wicked witness mocketh at judgment, and the mouth of the wicked ^[a]swalloweth up iniquity.