Verse 27

With the pure Thou shewest Thyself pure, And with the perverse Thou shewest Thyself a wrestler.

Referenced Verses

• Matt 5:8 : 8 `Happy the clean in heart -- because they shall see God.
• Exod 18:11 : 11 now I have known that Jehovah `is' greater than all the gods, for in the thing they have acted proudly -- `He is' above them!'
• Lev 26:23-28 : 23 `And if by these ye are not instructed by Me, and have walked with Me `in' opposition, 24 then I have walked -- I also -- with you in opposition, and have smitten you, even I, seven times for your sins; 25 and I have brought in on you a sword, executing the vengeance of a covenant; and ye have been gathered unto your cities, and I have sent pestilence into your midst, and ye have been given into the hand of an enemy. 26 `In My breaking to you the staff of bread, then ten women have baked your bread in one oven, and have given back your bread by weight; and ye have eaten, and are not satisfied. 27 `And if for this ye hearken not to Me, and have walked with Me in opposition, 28 then I have walked with you in the fury of opposition, and have chastised you, even I, seven times for your sins.
• Deut 28:58-61 : 58 `If thou dost not observe to do all the words of this law which are written in this book, to fear this honoured and fearful name -- Jehovah thy God -- 59 then hath Jehovah made wonderful thy strokes, and the strokes of thy seed -- great strokes, and stedfast, and evil sicknesses, and stedfast. 60 `And He hath brought back on thee all the diseases of Egypt, of the presence of which thou hast been afraid, and they have cleaved to thee; 61 also every sickness and every stroke which is not written in the book of this law; Jehovah doth cause them to go up upon thee till thou art destroyed,
• Ps 18:26 : 26 With the pure Thou showest Thyself pure, And with the perverse showest Thyself a wrestler,
• Ps 125:5 : 5 As to those turning `to' their crooked ways, Jehovah causeth them to go with workers of iniquity. Peace on Israel!
• Isa 45:9 : 9 Wo `to' him who is striving with his Former, (A potsherd with potsherds of the ground!) Doth clay say to its Framer, `What dost thou?' And thy work, `He hath no hands?'