With the purified thou wilt be purified, and with the perverse thou wilt show thyself perverse

A perverse heart will depart from me; I will not know evil.

O my God, cause me to escape From the hand of the wicked, From the hand of the perverse and violent.

They search out perverse things, 'We perfected a searching search,' And the inward part of man, and the heart are deep.

The wicked are estranged from the womb;
These go astray from birth, speaking lies [even twisted partial truths].

For, Yahweh, loveth justice, and will not forsake his men of lovingkindness, Unto times age-abiding, have the perverse been destroyed, - and the seed of the lawless, been cut off.

The perverse, by reason of their transgression, and on account of their iniquities, are afflicted;