Column 5

1 for judgment you have appointed him; O Rock, you have established him to reprove him. Eyes too pure 2 to look on evil, and you cannot gaze on trouble. 3 The interpretation of the matter: that God will not destroy his people by the hand of the nations, 4 but into the hand of his chosen ones God will give the judgment of all the nations, and by their reproof 5 all the wicked of his people will be found guilty, by those who kept his commandments 6 in their distress. For that is what it says: “Eyes too pure to look 7 on evil.” Its interpretation: that they did not go whoring after their eyes in the age of 8 wickedness. Why do you look on, traitors, and keep silent when 9 the wicked swallows one more righteous than he? Its interpretation concerns the house of Absalom 10 and the men of their counsel, who kept silent at the reproof of the Teacher of Righteousness⁠a 11 and did not help him against the Man of the Lie, who rejected 12 the Torah in the midst of their whole congregation. And you make humankind like the fish of the sea, 13 like creeping things, to rule over them. He brings all of them up with a hook and drags them in his net 14 and gathers them in his [dragnet. Therefore he sacrifices] to his net; therefore he rejoices 15 [and is glad and burns incense to his dragnet, for by them] his portion is fat 16 [and his food is rich … Its interpretation concerns]