## I am perfect ##

"I am faultless"

## It makes no difference, which is why I say that he destroys the perfect and the wicked together ##

"It makes no difference whether you are good or bad"

## he destroys the perfect and the wicked together ##

"he kills both the good people and the bad people" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-merism]])

## If a plague should suddenly kill ##

AT: "If an attack should suddenly kill people"

## plague ##

AT: "military attack" or "general disaster"

## he would laugh at the afflictions of the innocent ##

"God would laugh at the troubles of those who have not done anything wrong"

## The earth is given into the hand of the wicked ##

"God gives everybody in the earth into the control of bad people"

## The earth is given into ##

This passive clause can be translated as an active clause: AT: "God gives the earth..." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-activepassive]])

## The earth ##

This is a figure of speech where "the earth" is used to mean all the people on earth. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-synecdoche]])

## into the hand of the wicked ##

This metonym is used to describe the power of the bad people. "into the control of bad people"  (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy]])

## God covers the faces of its judges ##

This idiom describes how God is making the judges of the earth blind to the difference between right and wrong. AT: "God makes the judges of the earth blind [to the difference between right and wrong]"

## If it is not God who has done that, who has done it? ##

"If God does not do this, then who does?"