What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?

{To the chief Musician. Upon Sheminith. A Psalm of David.} Save, Jehovah, for the godly man is gone; for the faithful have failed from among the children of men.

Concerning the works of men, by the word of thy lips I have kept from the paths of the violent man.

From men who are thy hand, O Jehovah, from men of this age: their portion is in this life, and their belly thou fillest with thy hid treasure; they have their fill of sons, and leave the rest of their substance to their children.

But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and the despised of the people.

But I, as a deaf man, hear not; and am as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth.

When thou with rebukes dost correct a man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely, every man is vanity. Selah.

Both men of low and men of high degree, rich and poor alike.

Men of low degree are only vanity; men of high degree, a lie: laid in the balance, they go up together lighter than vanity.

Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, upon the son of man whom thou hast made strong for thyself.

Thou makest mortal man to return to dust, and sayest, Return, children of men.

And wine which gladdeneth the heart of man; making his face shine with oil; and with bread he strengtheneth man's heart.

{To the chief Musician. A Psalm of David.} Free me, O Jehovah, from the evil man; preserve me from the violent man:

Keep me, O Jehovah, from the hands of the wicked man, preserve me from the violent man, who devise to overthrow my steps.

Let not the man of evil tongue be established in the earth: evil shall hunt the man of violence to his ruin.

Look on the right hand and see; there is no man that knoweth me: refuge hath failed me; no man careth for my soul.

Jehovah, what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him, the son of man, that thou takest thought of him?

Both young men and maidens, old men with youths, --