MLV(i)
5 They are not in trouble as other men, nor are they plagued like other men.
6 Therefore pride is as a chain around their neck. Violence covers them as a garment.
7 Their eyes stand out with fatness. They have more than heart could wish.
8 They scoff and utter oppression in wickedness. They speak loftily. 9 They have set their mouth in the heavens and their tongue walks through the earth.
10 Therefore his people return here and waters of a full cup are drained by them.
11 And they say, How does God know? And is there knowledge in the Most High?
12 Behold, these are the wicked and those who prosper of old. They have possessed wealth.
13 Surely in vain I have cleansed my heart and washed my hands in innocence, 14 I have been plagued for all the day long and rebukes every morning.
15 If I had said, I will speak thus, behold, I would have dealt treacherously with the generation of your sons.
16 When I thought how I might understand this, it was too painful for me, 17 until I went into the sanctuary of God and considered their latter end.
18 Surely you set them in slippery places. You cast them down to destruction. 19 How they have become a desolation in a moment! They are utterly consumed with terrors.
20 As a dream from awakening, O Lord, when you waken, you will despise their form.
21 Because my soul was grieved and I was pricked in my heart. 22 So I was stupid and ignorant. I was a beast before you.
23 Nevertheless I am continually with you. You have held my right hand. 24 You will guide me with your counsel and afterward receive me to glory.
25 Whom have I in heaven? And there is none upon earth that I desire besides you. 26 My flesh and my heart fails, but God is the strength of my heart and my everlasting portion.
27 Because behold, those who are far from you will perish. You have destroyed all those who play the prostitute from you.
28 But it is good for me to draw near to God. I have made the lord Jehovah my refuge, that I may tell of all your works.
7 Their eyes stand out with fatness. They have more than heart could wish.
8 They scoff and utter oppression in wickedness. They speak loftily. 9 They have set their mouth in the heavens and their tongue walks through the earth.
10 Therefore his people return here and waters of a full cup are drained by them.
11 And they say, How does God know? And is there knowledge in the Most High?
12 Behold, these are the wicked and those who prosper of old. They have possessed wealth.
13 Surely in vain I have cleansed my heart and washed my hands in innocence, 14 I have been plagued for all the day long and rebukes every morning.
15 If I had said, I will speak thus, behold, I would have dealt treacherously with the generation of your sons.
16 When I thought how I might understand this, it was too painful for me, 17 until I went into the sanctuary of God and considered their latter end.
18 Surely you set them in slippery places. You cast them down to destruction. 19 How they have become a desolation in a moment! They are utterly consumed with terrors.
20 As a dream from awakening, O Lord, when you waken, you will despise their form.
21 Because my soul was grieved and I was pricked in my heart. 22 So I was stupid and ignorant. I was a beast before you.
23 Nevertheless I am continually with you. You have held my right hand. 24 You will guide me with your counsel and afterward receive me to glory.
25 Whom have I in heaven? And there is none upon earth that I desire besides you. 26 My flesh and my heart fails, but God is the strength of my heart and my everlasting portion.
27 Because behold, those who are far from you will perish. You have destroyed all those who play the prostitute from you.
28 But it is good for me to draw near to God. I have made the lord Jehovah my refuge, that I may tell of all your works.