1 See, a sovereign shall reign in righteousness, and rulers rule in right-ruling.
2 And each one shall be as a hiding place from the wind, and a shelter from the downpour, as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.
3 And the eyes of those who see are not dim, and the ears of those who hear listen.
4 And the heart of the rash understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers hurries to speak plainly.
5 A fool is no longer called noble, nor the scoundrel said to be respectable;
6 for a fool speaks folly, and his heart works wickedness: to practise filthiness, and to speak against יהוה that which misleads, to starve the being of the hungry, and to withhold the drink from the thirsty.
7 And the methods of the scoundrel are evil – he has devised wicked plans to destroy the poor with words of falsehood, even when the needy pleads for right-ruling.