With the pure, thou didst show thyself pure, But, with the perverse, thou didst show thyself ready to contend.

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.

They devise perverse things, They have completed the device well devised, Both the intent of each one, and the mind, are unsearchable.

Oh my God, deliver me, From the hand of the lawless one, From the clutch of the perverse and ruthless one;

A perverse heart, shall depart from me, A maker of mischief, will I not acknowledge;

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