² No, in your heart you devise injustice,^(A)
    and your hands mete out violence on the earth.^(B)

12 You are always righteous,^(A) Lord,
    when I bring a case^(B) before you.
Yet I would speak with you about your justice:^(C)
    Why does the way of the wicked prosper?^(D)
    Why do all the faithless live at ease?

⁴ Therefore the law^(A) is paralyzed,
    and justice never prevails.
The wicked hem in the righteous,
    so that justice^(B) is perverted.^(C)