The wicked is getting a lying wage, And whoso is sowing righteousness -- a true reward.
And God doth good to the midwives, and the people multiply, and are very mighty;
And they for their own blood lay wait, They watch secretly for their own lives.
The wage of the righteous `is' for life, The increase of the wicked for sin.
Whoso is sowing perverseness reapeth sorrow, And the rod of his anger weareth out.
His own iniquities do capture the wicked, And with the ropes of his sin he is holden.
Whoso is digging a pit falleth into it, And whoso is breaking a hedge, a serpent biteth him.
Their heart hath been divided, now they are guilty, He doth break down their altars, He doth destroy their standing-pillars.
`And he who is reaping doth receive a reward, and doth gather fruit to life age-during, that both he who is sowing and he who is reaping may rejoice together;
ye are to put off concerning the former behaviour the old man, that is corrupt according to the desires of the deceit,
and the fruit of the righteousness in peace is sown to those making peace.