⁸ He keepeth the paths of judgment, and preserveth the way of His saints.

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

²⁰ I lead in the way of righteousness, in the midst of the paths of judgment,

⁵ The thoughts of the righteous are right, but the counsels of the wicked are deceit.

²³ Much food is in the tillage of the poor, but there is that which is destroyed for want of judgment.

¹⁰ A divine sentence is in the lips of the king; his mouth transgresseth not in judgment.

¹¹ A just weight and balance are the Lord’S; all the weights of the bag are His work.

¹² It is an abomination for kings to commit wickedness, for the throne is established by righteousness.

¹⁵ He that justifieth the wicked and he that condemneth the just, both alike are an abomination to the Lord.

²³ A wicked man taketh a bribe out of the bosom to pervert the ways of judgment.

²⁶ Also to punish the just is not good, nor to strike princes for their equity.

⁵ It is not good to accept the person of the wicked, to overthrow the righteous in judgment.

²⁸ An ungodly witness scorneth judgment, and the mouth of the wicked devoureth iniquity.