They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.

And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.

If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;

If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my neighbour's door;

If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;

Or have eaten my morsel myself alone, and the fatherless hath not eaten thereof;

(For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother's womb;)

If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering;

If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;

If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate:

If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence;

This also were an iniquity to be punished by the judge: for I should have denied the God that is above.

Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul.

If I have eaten the fruits thereof without money, or have caused the owners thereof to lose their life:

Lest ye should say, We have found out wisdom: God thrusteth him down, not man.

Behold, now I have opened my mouth, my tongue hath spoken in my mouth.

Surely thou hast spoken in mine hearing, and I have heard the voice of thy words, saying,

Then he is gracious unto him, and saith, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom.

He looketh upon men, and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not;

Hear my words, O ye wise men; and give ear unto me, ye that have knowledge.

Surely it is meet to be said unto God, I have borne chastisement, I will not offend any more:

That which I see not teach thou me: if I have done iniquity, I will do no more.

For thou saidst, What advantage will it be unto thee? and, What profit shall I have, if I be cleansed from my sin?

Suffer me a little, and I will shew thee that I have yet to speak on God's behalf.

Then he sheweth them their work, and their transgressions that they have exceeded.

Even so would he have removed thee out of the strait into a broad place, where there is no straitness; and that which should be set on thy table should be full of fatness.

Have the gates of death been opened unto thee? or hast thou seen the doors of the shadow of death?

Which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war?

Whose house I have made the wilderness, and the barren land his dwellings.

Once have I spoken; but I will not answer: yea, twice; but I will proceed no further.

Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.

I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee.

And it was so, that after the LORD had spoken these words unto Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath.

Therefore take unto you now seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you: for him will I accept: lest I deal with you after your folly, in that ye have not spoken of me the thing which is right, like my servant Job.

He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.

Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.

I will declare the decree: the LORD hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee.

I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people, that have set themselves against me round about.

{To the chief Musician on Neginoth, A Psalm of David.} Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness: thou hast enlarged me when I was in distress; have mercy upon me, and hear my prayer.

Destroy thou them, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions; for they have rebelled against thee.

Have mercy upon me, O LORD; for I am weak: O LORD, heal me; for my bones are vexed.

O LORD my God, if I have done this; if there be iniquity in my hands;

If I have rewarded evil unto him that was at peace with me; (yea, I have delivered him that without cause is mine enemy:)

Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet:

Have mercy upon me, O LORD; consider my trouble which I suffer of them that hate me, thou that liftest me up from the gates of death:

The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.

Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our own: who is lord over us?

Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him; and those that trouble me rejoice when I am moved.

But I have trusted in thy mercy; my heart shall rejoice in thy salvation.

{To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.} The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.

Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.

Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the LORD is his refuge.

The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage.

I have set the LORD always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.

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

I have called upon thee, for thou wilt hear me, O God: incline thine ear unto me, and hear my speech.

They have now compassed us in our steps: they have set their eyes bowing down to the earth;

From men which are thy hand, O LORD, from men of the world, which have their portion in this life, and whose belly thou fillest with thy hid treasure: they are full of children, and leave the rest of their substance to their babes.

For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God.

For by thee I have run through a troop; and by my God have I leaped over a wall.

I have pursued mine enemies, and overtaken them: neither did I turn again till they were consumed.

I have wounded them that they were not able to rise: they are fallen under my feet.

Thou hast delivered me from the strivings of the people; and thou hast made me the head of the heathen: a people whom I have not known shall serve me.

Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent from the great transgression.

Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round.

For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.

Remember, O LORD, thy tender mercies and thy lovingkindnesses; for they have been ever of old.

Turn thee unto me, and have mercy upon me; for I am desolate and afflicted.

{A Psalm of David.} Judge me, O LORD; for I have walked in mine integrity: I have trusted also in the LORD; therefore I shall not slide.

For thy lovingkindness is before mine eyes: and I have walked in thy truth.

I have not sat with vain persons, neither will I go in with dissemblers.

I have hated the congregation of evil doers; and will not sit with the wicked.

LORD, I have loved the habitation of thy house, and the place where thine honour dwelleth.

One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to inquire in his temple.

Hear, O LORD, when I cry with my voice: have mercy also upon me, and answer me.

Hear, O LORD, and have mercy upon me: LORD, be thou my helper.

Pull me out of the net that they have laid privily for me: for thou art my strength.

I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I trust in the LORD.

Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my belly.

For I have heard the slander of many: fear was on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.

Let me not be ashamed, O LORD; for I have called upon thee: let the wicked be ashamed, and let them be silent in the grave.

I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the LORD; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah.

Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near unto thee.

For our heart shall rejoice in him, because we have trusted in his holy name.

For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause they have digged for my soul.

Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, so would we have it: let them not say, We have swallowed him up.

The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, and to slay such as be of upright conversation.

I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.

I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree.

I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.

I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O LORD, thou knowest.

I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; I have declared thy faithfulness and thy salvation: I have not concealed thy lovingkindness and thy truth from the great congregation.

For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth me.

I said, LORD, be merciful unto me: heal my soul; for I have sinned against thee.

My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?

{To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, Maschil.} We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou didst in their days, in the times of old.

All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.

Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way;

If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god;

{To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim, for the sons of Korah, Maschil, A Song of loves.} My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue is the pen of a ready writer.