21. For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God.
22. For all his judgments were before me, and I did not put away his statutes from me.
23. I was also upright before him, and I kept myself from my iniquity.
24. Therefore hath the LORD recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his sight.
25. With the merciful thou wilt show thyself merciful; with an upright man thou wilt show thyself upright;
26. With the pure thou wilt show thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt contend.