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1 - To the Overseer. --`Destroy not.' --A secret treasure, by David. Is it true, O dumb one, righteously ye speak? Uprightly ye judge, O sons of men?

2 - Even in heart ye work iniquities, In the land the violence of your hands ye ponder.

3 - The wicked have been estranged from the womb, They have erred from the belly, speaking lies.

4 - Their poison <FI>is<Fi> as poison of a serpent, As a deaf asp shutting its ear,

5 - Which hearkeneth not to the voice of whisperers, A charmer of charms most skilful.

6 - O God, break their teeth in their mouth, The jaw-teeth of young lions break down, O Jehovah.

7 - They are melted as waters, They go up and down for themselves, His arrow proceedeth as they cut themselves off.

8 - As a snail that melteth he goeth on, <FI>As<Fi> an untimely birth of a woman, They have not seen the sun.

9 - Before your pots discern the bramble, As well the raw as the heated He whirleth away.

10 - The righteous rejoiceth that he hath seen vengeance, His steps he washeth in the blood of the wicked.

11 - And man saith: `Surely fruit <FI>is<Fi> for the righteous: Surely there is a God judging in the earth!'