Let favour be shewed to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness: in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the LORD.

In the land of uprightness - rather, as in , prosperity: answering to "favour ... showed to the wicked" in the parallelism and in antithesis to "judgments ... in the earth" (). Where prosperity attends the wicked as well as the just (), 'he will not learn righteousness,' therefore judgments must be sent that he may "learn" it.

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