Love righteousness, ye that be judges of the earth,

2 Because he is found of them that tempt him not,

3 For crooked thoughts separate from God;

4 Because wisdom will not enter into a soul that deviseth evil,

5 For a holy spirit of discipline will flee deceit.

6 For wisdom is a spirit that loveth man,

7 Because the spirit of the Lord hath filled the world,

8 Therefore no man that uttereth unrighteous things shall be unseen;

9 For in the midst of his counsels the ungodly shall be searched out;

10 Because there is an ear of jealousy that listeneth to all things,

11 Beware then of unprofitable murmuring,

12 Court not death in the error of your life;

13 Because God made not death;

14 For he created all things that they might have being:

15 For righteousness is immortal:

16 But ungodly men by their hands and their words called death unto them: