Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power?
Be thou exalted, LORD, in thine own strength: so will we sing and praise thy power.
Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of an homer shall yield an ephah.
Righteous art thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously?
That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asketh, and the judge asketh for a reward; and the great man, he uttereth his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up.