¹⁵ Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer, but I would make supplication to my judge.

⁷ The steps of his strength shall be straitened, and his own counsel shall cast him down.

² The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.

³⁷ For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.

²² And he saith unto him, Out of thine own mouth will I judge thee, thou wicked servant. Thou knewest that I was an austere man, taking up that I laid not down, and reaping that I did not sow: