4. You have closed their minds to understanding; therefore you will not let them triumph.
5. If anyone denounces their friends for reward, the eyes of their children will fail.
6. “God has made me a byword to everyone, a man in whose face people spit.
7. My eyes have grown dim with grief; my whole frame is but a shadow.
8. The upright are appalled at this; the innocent are aroused against the ungodly.
9. Nevertheless, the righteous will hold to their ways, and those with clean hands will grow stronger.