'Perverseness' in the Bible
Lo, he travaileth with iniquity, And he hath conceived perverseness, And hath brought forth falsehood.
Return doth his perverseness on his head, And on his crown his violence cometh down.
Of oaths his mouth is full, And deceits, and fraud: Under his tongue is perverseness and iniquity,
Thou hast seen, For Thou perverseness and anger beholdest; By giving into Thy hand, On Thee doth the afflicted leave it, Of the fatherless Thou hast been an helper.
Judge me, O God, And plead my cause against a nation not pious, From a man of deceit and perverseness Thou dost deliver me,
By day and by night they go round it, on its walls. Both iniquity and perverseness are in its midst,
And I think to know this, Perverseness it is in mine eyes,
An enemy exacteth not upon him, And a son of perverseness afflicteth him not.
To declare that upright is Jehovah my rock, And there is no perverseness in Him!
Is a throne of mischief joined with Thee? A framer of perverseness by statute?
The chief of my surrounders, The perverseness of their lips covereth them.