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 Isaiah 26:7, prosperity: answering to "favour ... showed to the wicked" in the parallelism and in antithesis to "judgments ... in the earth" (Isaiah 26:9). Where prosperity attends the wicked as well as the just (Matthew 5:45), 'he will not learn righteousness,' therefore judgments must be sent that he may "learn" it.