1 If you⌃ do indeed speak righteousness, then do you⌃ judge rightly, you⌃ sons of men.10 The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance of the ungodly: he shall wash his hands in the blood of the sinner.11 And a man shall say, Verily then there is a reward for the righteous: verily there is a God that judges them in the earth.2 For you⌃ work iniquities in your hearts in the earth: your hands plot unrighteousness.3 Sinners have gone astray from the womb: they go astray from the belly: they speak lies.4 Their venom is like that of a serpent; as that of a deaf asp, and that stops her ears;5 which will not hear the voice of charmers, nor heed the charm prepared skillfully by the wise.6 God has crushed their teeth in their mouth: God has broken the cheek-teeth of the lions.7 They shall utterly pass away like water running through: he shall bend his bow till they shall fail.8 They shall be destroyed as melted wax: the fire has fallen and they have not seen the sun.9 Before your thorns feel the white thorn, he shall swallow you up as living, as in his wrath.