Lo, I pray you, I have set in order the cause, I have known that I am righteous.

O that in Sheol Thou wouldest conceal me, Hide me till the turning of Thine anger, Set for me a limit, and remember me.

They have gaped on me with their mouth, In reproach they have smitten my cheeks, Together against me they set themselves.

And he set me up for a proverb of the peoples, And a wonder before them I am.

When do ye set an end to words? Consider ye, and afterwards do we speak.

Hungry is his sorrow, And calamity is ready at his side.

Know now, that God turned me upside down, And His net against me hath set round,

Whom I -- I see on my side, And mine eyes have beheld, and not a stranger, Consumed have been my reins in my bosom.

There is not a remnant to his food, Therefore his good doth not stay.

Their seed is established, Before their face with them, And their offspring before their eyes.

Sweet to him have been the clods of the valley, And after him every man he draweth, And before him there is no numbering.

And thou hast said, 'What -- hath God known? Through thickness doth He judge?

Receive, I pray thee, from His mouth a law, And set His sayings in thy heart.

So as to set on the dust a defence, And on a rock of the valleys a covering.

O that I had known -- and I find Him, I come in unto His seat,

An end hath he set to darkness, And to all perfection he is searching, A stone of darkness and death-shade.

The deep hath said, 'It is not in me,' And the sea hath said, 'It is not with me.'

Destruction and death have said: 'With our ears we have heard its fame.'

When I go out to the gate by the city, In a broad place I prepare my seat.

I choose their way, and sit head, And I dwell as a king in a troop, When mourners he doth comfort.

And now, laughed at me, Have the younger in days than I, Whose fathers I have loathed to set With the dogs of my flock.

If I have made gold my confidence, And to the pure gold have said, 'My trust,'

I said: Days do speak, And multitude of years teach wisdom.

Therefore I have said: Hearken to me, I do shew my opinion -- even I.

And he hath not set in array words for me, And with your sayings I do not answer him.

If thou art able -- answer me, Set in array before me -- station thyself.

Surely -- thou hast said in mine ears, And the sounds of words I hear:

For Job hath said, 'I have been righteous, And God hath turned aside my right,

For he hath said, 'It doth not profit a man, When he delighteth himself with God.'

If He doth set on him His heart, His spirit and his breath unto Him He gathereth.

Who hath said to a king -- 'Worthless,' Unto princes -- 'Wicked?'

For unto God hath any said: 'I have taken away, I do not corruptly,

This hast thou reckoned for judgment: Thou hast said -- 'My righteousness is more than God's?'

And none said, 'Where is God my maker? Giving songs in the night,

Yea, though thou sayest thou dost not behold Him, Judgment is before Him, and stay for Him.

He withdraweth not from the righteous His eyes, And from kings on the throne, And causeth them to sit for ever, and they are high,

And the profane in heart set the face, They cry not when He hath bound them.

Lo, God doth sit on high by His power, Who is like Him -- a teacher?

Who hath appointed unto Him his way? And who said, 'Thou hast done iniquity?'

Let us know what we say to Him, We set not in array because of darkness.

Dost thou bind sweet influences of Kimah? Or the attractions of Kesil dost thou open?

Dost thou trust in him That he doth bring back thy seed? And to thy threshing-floor doth gather it?

O the happiness of that one, who Hath not walked in the counsel of the wicked. And in the way of sinners hath not stood, And in the seat of scorners hath not sat;

I declare concerning a statute: Jehovah said unto me, 'My Son Thou art, I to-day have brought thee forth.

I am not afraid of myriads of people, That round about they have set against me.

Jehovah, at morning Thou hearest my voice, At morning I set in array for Thee, And I look out.

For Thou hast done my judgment and my right. Thou hast sat on a throne, A judge of righteousness.

He hath said in his heart, 'I am not moved,' To generation and generation not in evil.

He doth sit in an ambush of the villages, In secret places he doth slay the innocent. His eyes for the afflicted watch secretly,

He said in his heart, 'God hath forgotten, He hath hid His face, He hath never seen.'

Wherefore hath the wicked despised God? He hath said in his heart, 'It is not required.'

Who said, 'By our tongue we do mightily: Our lips are our own; who is lord over us?'

Because of the spoiling of the poor, Because of the groaning of the needy, Now do I arise, saith Jehovah, I set in safety him who doth breathe for it.

Till when do I set counsels in my soul? Sorrow in my heart daily? Till when is mine enemy exalted over me?

To the Overseer. -- By David. A fool hath said in his heart, 'God is not;' They have done corruptly, They have done abominable actions, There is not a doer of good.

Thou hast said to Jehovah, 'My Lord Thou art;' My good is not for thine own sake;

Our steps now have compassed him;' Their eyes they set to turn aside in the land.

Magnifying the salvation of His king, And doing kindness to His anointed, To David, and to his seed -- unto the age!

To the Overseer. -- A Psalm of David. Jehovah doth answer thee, In a day of adversity, The name of the God of Jacob doth set thee on high,

We sing of thy salvation, And in the name of our God set up a banner. Jehovah doth fulfil all thy requests.

Their fruit from earth Thou destroyest, And their seed from the sons of men.

Ye who fear Jehovah, praise ye Him, All the seed of Jacob, honour ye Him, And be afraid of Him, all ye seed of Israel.

A seed doth serve Him, It is declared of the Lord to the generation.

His soul in good doth remain, And his seed doth possess the land.

I have not sat with vain men, And with dissemblers I enter not.

I have hated the assembly of evil doers, And with the wicked I sit not.

To Thee said my heart 'They sought my face, Thy face, O Jehovah, I seek.'

Jehovah on the deluge hath sat, And Jehovah sitteth king -- to the age,

And I -- I have said in mine ease, 'I am not moved -- to the age.

And I on Thee -- I have trusted, O Jehovah, I have said, 'Thou art my God.'

And I -- I have said in my haste, 'I have been cut off from before Thine eyes,' But Thou hast heard the voice of my supplications, In my crying unto Thee.

My sin I cause Thee to know, And mine iniquity I have not covered. I have said, 'I confess concerning My transgressions to Jehovah,' And Thou -- Thou hast taken away, The iniquity of my sin. Selah.

For He hath said, and it is, He hath commanded, and it standeth.

And they enlarge against me their mouth, They said, 'Aha, aha, our eye hath seen.'

Be silent for Jehovah, and stay thyself for Him, Do not fret because of him Who is making prosperous his way, Because of a man doing wicked devices.

Young I have been, I have also become old, And I have not seen the righteous forsaken, And his seed seeking bread.

All the day he is gracious and lending, And his seed is for a blessing.

For Jehovah is loving judgment, And He doth not forsake His saintly ones, To the age they have been kept, And the seed of the wicked is cut off.

When I said, 'Lest they rejoice over me, In the slipping of my foot against me they magnified themselves.

To the Overseer, to Jeduthun. -- A Psalm of David. I have said, 'I observe my ways, Against sinning with my tongue, I keep for my mouth a curb, while the wicked is before me.'

Lo, handbreadths Thou hast made my days, And mine age is as nothing before Thee, Only, all vanity is every man set up. Selah.

Then said I, 'Lo, I have come,' In the roll of the book it is written of me,

I -- I said, 'O Jehovah, favour me, Heal my soul, for I did sin against Thee,'

God hath reigned over nations, God hath sat on His holy throne,

Set your heart to her bulwark, Consider her high places, So that ye recount to a later generation,

As sheep for Sheol they have set themselves, Death doth afflict them, And the upright rule over them in the morning, And their form is for consumption. Sheol is a dwelling for him.

And to the wicked hath God said: What to thee -- to recount My statutes? That thou liftest up My covenant on thy mouth?

These thou didst, and I kept silent, Thou hast thought that I am like thee, I reprove thee, and set in array before thine eyes.

To the Overseer. -- 'On a disease.' -- An instruction, by David. A fool said in his heart, 'There is no God.' They have done corruptly, Yea, they have done abominable iniquity, There is none doing good.

For strangers have risen up against me And terrible ones have sought my soul, They have not set God before them. Selah.

To the Overseer. -- 'Destroy not,' by David. -- A secret treasure, in Saul's sending, and they watch the house to put him to death. Deliver me from mine enemies, O my God, From my withstanders set me on high.

Trust not in oppression, And in robbery become not vain, Wealth -- when it increaseth -- set not the heart.

They strengthen for themselves an evil thing, They recount of the hiding of snares, They have said, 'Who doth look at it?'

Why do ye envy, O high hills, The hill God hath desired for His seat? Jehovah also doth tabernacle for ever.

The Lord said: 'From Bashan I bring back, I bring back from the depths of the sea.

And I am afflicted and pained, Thy salvation, O God, doth set me on high.

And the seed of His servants inherit it, And those loving His name dwell in it!

Because Thou hast showed me many and sad distresses, Thou turnest back -- Thou revivest me, And from the depths of the earth, Thou turnest back -- Thou bringest me up.

They have set in the heavens their mouth, And their tongue walketh in the earth.

And they have said, 'How hath God known? And is there knowledge in the Most High?'