1Look! A king will reign with righteousness, and rulers will rule with justice.2And each man will be like a hiding place from the wind and a shelter from the storm, like streams of water in a dry place, like the shadow of a heavy rock in a faint land.3Then the eyes of those who see will not look away, and the ears of those who hear will listen.4The heart of the hasty will understand knowledge, and the tongue of stammerers will hasten to speak clearly.5No longer will a fool be called noble, nor will a rogue be called rich.6For the fool speaks folly, and his heart practices evil by committing profaneness and by speaking error against the LORD, by emptying the soul of the hungry and by depriving the thirsty of drink.7The rogue's devices are evil; he has plotted wickedness to ruin the poor and afflicted with lying words and by denying justice to the needy in speech.8But the noble man devises noble things, and he stands upon noble things.