Though I am righteous, my own mouth shall condemn me. Though I am blameless, it shall prove me perverse.

Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things?

Is not disaster to the perverse, and calamity to the workers of iniquity?

God has delivered me to the perverse; and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.

Surely these are the dwellings of the perverse, and this the place that has not known God.

Let my enemy be like the wicked, and he who rises up against me as the perverse.

He took the wise in their craftiness, and the counsel of the perverse was headlong.

And I break the jaw-teeth of the perverse, And from his teeth I cast away prey.

For provocation slayeth the perverse, And envy putteth to death the simple,

I -- I have seen the perverse taking root, And I mark his habitation straightway,

In the fulness of his sufficiency he is straitened. Every perverse hand doth meet him.

Wherefore, ye men of mind, hearken unto me, - Far be it, that, GOD, should be lawless, or, the Almighty, be perverse!

For, unto GOD, hath one ever said - I have borne punishment, I will not be perverse;