evil and wicked people

¹²An apostate man, a harmful man, walks with a perverse mouth; ¹³he winks with the eyes, touches with the foot, speaks with the finger. ¹⁴With a depraved heart he devises evil, and at all times he sows conflict. ¹⁵To this one, his perdition will arrive promptly, and he shall be crushed suddenly: he will no longer have any remedy. ¹⁶Six things there are that the Lord hates, and the seventh, his soul detests:

¹The impious flees, though no one pursues. But the just, like a confident lion, shall be without dread. ²Because of the sins of the land, it has many princes. And because of the wisdom of a man, and the knowledge of those things that are said, the life of the leader shall be prolonged. ³A poor man slandering the poor is like a violent rainstorm in advance of a famine. ⁴Those who abandon the law praise the impious. Those who guard it are inflamed against him. ⁵Evil men do not intend judgment. But those who inquire after the Lord turn their souls toward all things. ⁶Better is the pauper walking in his simplicity, than the rich walking in ways of depravity.

¹⁴And so, for all that is done and for each error, God will bring judgment: whether it was good or evil.

¹A Psalm of David himself. Do not choose to imitate the malicious; neither should you envy those who work iniquity. ²For they will quickly wither away like dry grass, and in like manner to kitchen herbs, they will soon droop. ³Hope in the Lord and do good, and dwell in the land, and so you shall be pastured with its riches. ⁴Delight in the Lord, and he will grant to you the petitions of your heart. ⁵Reveal your way to the Lord, and hope in him, and he will accomplish it. ⁶And he will bring forth your justice like the light, and your judgment like the midday.

⁵In the morning, I will stand before you, and I will see. For you are not a God who wills iniquity.

²²The death of a sinner is very harmful, and those who hate the just will fare badly.

¹³No one should say, when he is tempted, that he was tempted by God. For God does not entice toward evils, and he himself tempts no one.

¹Woe to you who devise useless things and who work evil in your beds. In the morning light, they undertake it, because their hand is against God.

²³For the wages of sin is death. But the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

¹⁹We know that we are of God, and that the entire world is established in wickedness.

¹⁰just as it was written: “There is no one who is just. ¹¹There is no one who understands. There is no one who seeks God. ¹²All have gone astray; together they have become useless. There is no one who does good; there is not even one. ¹³Their throat is an open sepulcher. With their tongues, they have been acting deceitfully. The venom of asps is under their lips. ¹⁴Their mouth is full of curses and bitterness. ¹⁵Their feet are swift to shed blood.

¹A Psalm of David himself. Do not choose to imitate the malicious; neither should you envy those who work iniquity.

³⁰And indeed, God, having looked down to see the ignorance of these times, has now announced to men that everyone everywhere should do penance.