1God takes his stand in the court of heaven
to deliver judgement among the gods themselves.
2How long will you judge unjustly
and show favour to the wicked? 3You ought to give judgement for the weak and the orphan,
and see right done to the destitute and downtrodden, 4you ought to rescue the weak and the poor,
and save them from the clutches of wicked men. 5But you know nothing, you understand nothing,
you walk in the dark
while earth's foundations are giving way. 6This is my sentence: Gods you may be,
sons all of you of a high god Or of the Most High, 7yet you shall die as men die Or as Adam died;
princes fall, every one of them, and so shall you.
8Arise, O God, and judge the earth;
for thou dost pass all nations through thy sieve.