No, in heart you work unrighteousness; On earth you weigh out the violence of your hands.
For they held out evil against You; They devised a plot; they do not prevail.
Elohim stands in the congregation of Ě
Would a throne of destruction, Which devises trouble by decree, Be joined with You?
Then again I saw under the sun: In the place of right-ruling, wrongness was there. And in the place of righteousness, wrongness was there.
“Woe to those making unrighteous laws, and writers who have prescribed toil,
The path of the righteous is uprightness; O upright One, You weigh the course of the righteous.
“In you they have taken a bribe to shed blood. You have taken interest and increase. You have cut off your neighbour by extortion. And you have forgotten Me,” declares the Master יהוה.
“Her leaders in her midst are like wolves tearing the prey, to shed blood, to destroy lives, and to get greedy gain.
‘And now we are calling the proud blessed – not only are the doers of wrongness built up, but they also try Elohim and escape.’ ”