With the pure Thou shewest Thyself pure, And with the perverse Thou shewest Thyself a wrestler.
As to those turning `to' their crooked ways, Jehovah causeth them to go with workers of iniquity. Peace on Israel!
With the pure Thou showest Thyself pure, And with the perverse showest Thyself a wrestler,
now I have known that Jehovah `is' greater than all the gods, for in the thing they have acted proudly -- `He is' above them!'
Wo `to' him who is striving with his Former, (A potsherd with potsherds of the ground!) Doth clay say to its Framer, `What dost thou?' And thy work, `He hath no hands?'
`Happy the clean in heart -- because they shall see God.
And, according as they did not approve of having God in knowledge, God gave them up to a disapproved mind, to do the things not seemly;
and every one who is having this hope on him, doth purify himself, even as he is pure.