Surely, these, are the dwellings of him that is perverse, and, this, is the place of him that knoweth not GOD.

If I should justify myself, mine own mouth, would condemn me, - I blameless? then had it shewn me perverse.

GOD doth abandon me to him that is perverse, and, into the hands of the lawless, he throweth me headlong.

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;

Let mine enemy be a veritably lawless one! And, he that lifteth himself up against me, one veritably perverse!

And I shivered the fangs of the perverse, - and, out of his teeth, I tare the prey.

Is there not calamity, for the perverse? and misfortune, for the workers of iniquity?