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[1]Yet God is good to Israel: even, to the pure in heart.
[2]As for me, my feet were almost gone: my steps had well near slipped.
[3]For I feared at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
[4]For there are no bands in their death, but they are lusty and strong.
[5]They are not in trouble as other men, neither are they plagued with other men.
[6]Therefore pride is as a chain unto them, and cruelty covereth them as a garment.
[7]Their eyes stand out for fatness: they have more then heart can wish.
[8]They are licentious, and speak wickedly of their oppression: they talk presumptuously.
[9]They set their mouth against heaven, and their tongue walketh through the earth.
[10]Therefore his people turn hither: for waters of a full cup are wrung out to them.
[11]And they say, How doth God know it? Or is there knowledge in the Most High?
[12]Lo, these are the wicked, yet prosper they alway, and increase in riches.
[13]Certainly I have cleansed mine heart in vain, and washed mine hands in innocency.
[14]For daily have I been punished, and chastened every morning.
[15]If I say, I will judge thus, behold the generation of thy children: I have trespassed.
[16]Then thought I to know this, but it was too painful for me,
[17]Until I went into the sanctuary of God: then understood I their end.
[18]Surely thou hast set them in slippery places , and castest them down into desolation.
[19]How suddenly are they destroyed, perished and horribly consumed,
[20]As a dream when one awaketh! O Lord, when thou raisest us up, thou shalt make their image despised.
[21]Certainly mine heart was vexed, and I was pricked in my reins:
[22]So foolish was I and ignorant: I was a beast before thee.
[23]Yet I was alway with thee: thou hast holden me by my right hand.
[24]Thou wilt guide me by thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory.
[25]Whom have I in heaven but thee? And I have desired none in the earth with thee.
[26]My flesh faileth and mine heart also: but God is the strength of mine heart, and my portion forever.
[27]For lo, they that withdraw themselves from thee, shall perish: thou destroyest all them that go a whoring from thee.
[28]As for me, it is good for me to draw near to God: therefore I have put my trust in the Lord God, that I may declare all thy works.
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