For my mouth ¹  speaks truth, ²  and my lips ³  hate wickedness. ⁴ 

I saw something else on earth: ¹  In the place of justice, there was wickedness, and in the place of fairness, ²  there was wickedness.

Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; ignore the stubbornness, wickedness, and sin of these people.

Is not your wickedness great ¹  and is there no end to your iniquity?

my ¹  lips will not speak wickedness, and my tongue will whisper ²  no deceit.

He strikes them for their wickedness, ¹  in a place where people can see, ² 

Your wickedness affects only ¹  a person like yourself, and your righteousness only other people. ² 

Day and night they walk around on its walls, ¹  while wickedness and destruction ²  are within it.

For they eat bread ¹  gained from wickedness ²  and drink wine obtained from violence. ³ 

Treasures gained by wickedness ¹  do not profit, but righteousness ²  delivers from mortal danger. ³ 

No one ¹  can be established ²  through wickedness, but a righteous root ³  cannot be moved.

Righteousness ¹  guards the one who lives with integrity, ²  but wickedness ³  overthrows the sinner.

Doing wickedness ¹  is an abomination to kings, because a throne ²  is established in righteousness.

See the one who is pregnant with wickedness, who conceives destructive plans, and gives birth to harmful lies – ¹ 

The righteousness of the blameless will make straight their way, ¹  but the wicked person will fall by his own wickedness. ² 

But I will certainly ¹  hide myself at that time because of all the wickedness they ²  will have done by turning to other gods.

The womb ¹  forgets him, the worm feasts on him, no longer will he be remembered. Like a tree, wickedness will be broken down.

“Therefore, listen to me, you men of understanding. ¹  Far be it from ²  God to do wickedness, from the Almighty to do evil.

I tried ¹  to understand, examine, and comprehend ²  the role of ³  wisdom in the scheme of things, ⁴  and to understand the stupidity of wickedness ⁵  and the insanity of folly. ⁶ 

Violence ¹  has grown into a staff that supports wickedness. Not one of them will be left ²  – not from their crowd, not from their wealth, not from their prominence. ³