20. Though I am in the right, my own mouth would condemn me;though I am blameless, he would prove me perverse.
21. I am blameless; I regard not myself;I loathe my life.
22. It is all one; therefore I say,‘He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.’
23. When disaster brings sudden death,he mocks at the calamity of the innocent.
24. The earth is given into the hand of the wicked;he covers the faces of its judges— if it is not he, who then is it?