22 For I have kept the ways of the Lord, and have not wickedly departed from my God.
23 For all his judgments were before me: and as for his statutes, I did not depart from them.
24 I was also perfect toward him, and I kept myself from mine iniquity.
25 Therefore hath the Lord recompensed me according to my righteousness; according to my cleanness in his eyesight.
26 With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself merciful, with the perfect man thou wilt shew thyself perfect;
27 With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the perverse thou wilt shew thyself froward.
28 And the afflicted people thou wilt save: but thine eyes are upon the haughty, that thou mayest bring them down.