No, you invent new crimes on earth, and your hands spread violence.
Although they scheme and plan evil against you, they will not succeed.
God takes his place in his own assembly. He pronounces judgment among the gods:
Are wicked rulers who use the law to do unlawful things able to be your partners?
I saw something else under the sun: There is wickedness where justice should be found. There is wickedness where righteousness should be found.
How horrible it will be for those who make unjust laws and who make oppressive regulations.
The path of the righteous is level. O Upright One, you make the road of the righteous smooth.
Other people take bribes to murder people. You collect interest and make excessive profits. You make profits by mistreating your neighbors. You have forgotten me, declares the Almighty Lord.
Your leaders are like wolves that tear their prey into pieces. They murder and destroy people to make excessive profits.
So now we call arrogant people blessed. Not only are evildoers encouraged, they even test God and get away with it.’ ”
