"(For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;)"
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My zeal hath consumed me, because mine enemies have forgotten thy words.
When righteous men do rejoice, there is great glory: but when the wicked rise, a man is hidden.
Slay utterly old and young, both maids, and little children, and women: but come not near any man upon whom is the mark; and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the ancient men which were before the house.
And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered.
Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers,
Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, because they keep not thy law.
A righteous man falling down before the wicked is as a troubled fountain, and a corrupt spring.
And the LORD said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof.
I beheld the transgressors, and was grieved; because they kept not thy word.
(Because the soul of that upright man living among them was pained from day to day by seeing and hearing their crimes):
(for the righteous man through seeing and hearing, dwelling among them, tormented [his] righteous soul day after day with [their] lawless works,)
(For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;)
(For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, grieved his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;)
(for that righteous man dwelling among them, was tormented in his righteous soul from day to day with seeing and hearing lawless deeds):
for in seeing and hearing, the righteous man, dwelling among them, day by day the righteous soul with unlawful works was harassing.