commands that make for holiness—only then shall I confess to you, because I shall have learned your just judgments. What use would it be to me to learn them, if my heart were crooked and I wandered into twisting paths? Your commands would not bring me joy but only accuse me. 5. The next words, I will keep your ways of justice, are closely connected with the preceding verses. The passage runs like this: O that my ways may be directed toward observing your ways of justice! Then I shall not be put