what [is] a human being that you think of him? and a child of humankind that you care for him?

When the foundations are destroyed what can [the] righteous do?

He who walks blamelessly and does what is right. He who speaks honestly in his heart.

"What gain [is there] in my {death}, in my going down into [the] pit? Will [the] dust praise you? Will it tell of your faithfulness?

Violent witnesses rise up; they ask me [concerning] what I do not know.

"Let me know, O Yahweh, my end, and what is the measure of my days. Let me know how transient I [am]."

And now, O Lord, for what do I wait? My hope is for you.

But to the wicked God says, "What [right] have you to recite my statutes and {mention my covenant with your mouth},

You love evil more than good, a lie more than speaking {what is right}. Selah

I will give thanks to you forever, because [of what] you have done, and I will wait on your name, because [it is] good, in the presence of your faithful ones.

God, whose word I praise, God I trust; I do not fear. What can [mere] flesh do to me?

God I trust; I do not fear. What can [mere] humankind do to me?

Do you really speak [what is] right [when] silent? [Do] you judge fairly the children of humankind?

Come [and] hear, all you God-fearers, and I will tell what he has done for me.

Your God has commanded your strength. Show yourself strong, O God, [by] what you perform for us.

More numerous than the hairs of my head are [those] hating me without a cause. [Those who are] destroying me--my enemies wrongfully-- are mighty. What I did not steal, I then must restore.

May [what is] right blossom in his days and an abundance of peace, until [the] moon is no more.

So they ate and were well filled, and he brought about [what] they craved.

I will hear what God, Yahweh, will speak, because he will speak peace to his people, even his faithful [ones], but let them not return to folly.

Yes, Yahweh will give [what is] good, and our land will give its produce.

I will not defile my covenant, or alter what proceeded from my lips.

Remember what my lifespan [is]. [Remember] for what vanity you have created all [the] children of humankind.

What man can live [on] and not see death? Can he deliver his life from the {power} of Sheol? Selah

Rise up, O Judge of the earth. Repay upon the proud what is [their] rightful due.

You give to them; they gather [it]. You open your hand, they are filled with [what is] good.

who {condescends to look at} [what is] in the heavens and in the earth?

What's with you, O sea, [that] you fled? O Jordan, [that] you turned back?

What shall I give back to Yahweh [for] all his benefits to me?

Yahweh [is] for me; I do not fear. What can [mere] humans do to me?

Turn away my eyes from looking at [what is] worthless; revive me in your ways.

What shall be given to you, and what more shall be done to you, deceitful tongue?

O daughter of Babylon, about to be devastated, happy [shall be he] who pays back to you {what you paid out to us}.

O Yahweh, what [is] humankind that you take knowledge of him, [or the] son of man that you take thought of him?