Whom do I have in the heavens [except you]? And with you I have no [other] desire on earth.

Surely God is good to Israel, to those pure of heart.

My flesh and heart failed, [but] God [is] the {strength} of my heart and my reward forever.

You will guide me with your advice, and afterward you will take me [into] honor.

But I [am] continually with you; you have hold of my right hand.

But as for me, the approach to God [is] for my good. I have set the Lord Yahweh [as] my refuge, in order to tell all your works.

because I envied the boastful [when] I saw [the] well-being of [the] wicked.

When my heart was embittered and I felt stabbed in my kidneys,

When I thought about [how] to understand this, it [was] troubling in my eyes

But as for me, my feet had almost stumbled. My steps had nearly slipped,

Surely you set them on slippery places. You cause them to fall onto ruin.

until I went into the sanctuary of God. [Then] I understood their fate.

Surely in vain I have kept my heart pure, and washed my hands in innocence.

See, these [are the] wicked, and they increase wealth, ever carefree.

And they say, "How does God know?" and, "Does the Most High have knowledge?"

If I had said, "I will speak thus," behold, I would have acted treacherously against your children's generation.

Their eye bulges from fat. Imaginings overflow [their] heart.

then I was brutish and ignorant. With you I was [like] the beasts.

For there are no pains up to their death, and their bodies [are] {healthy}.

They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue roams the earth.

Therefore pride is their necklace; an outfit of violence covers them.

They mock and speak maliciously of oppression; they speak [as though] from on high.

For indeed, [those] distancing themselves from you will be ruined. You destroy each who abandons you for harlotry.

Like a dream upon awakening, when [you] wake up, O Lord, you will despise their fleeting form.

And I have been plagued all day and rebuked {every morning}.

They do not have {ordinary trouble}, and they are not plagued as [other] people.

Therefore his people turn there, and abundant waters are slurped up by them.

How they become a desolation in a moment! They come to a complete end by terrors.