then sheweth he them their works and deeds and the sins wherewith they have used cruel violence.

"When he commandeth the snow, it falleth upon the earth: As soon as he giveth the rain a charge, immediately the showers have their strength, and fall down.

Have the gates of death been open unto thee, or hast thou seen the door of everlasting treasure?

which I have prepared against the time of trouble, against the time of battle and war?

Unto whom I have given the wilderness to be their house, and the untilled land to be their dwelling place:

Once or twice have I spoken, but I will say no more."

For when thou thinkest to have hold upon him, he shall beguile thee: Every man also that seeth him, shall go back.

For who can keep his own counsel so secret, but it shall be known? Therefore have I spoken unwisely, seeing these things are so high, and pass mine understanding.

I have given diligent ear unto thee, and now I see thee with mine eyes.

Now when the LORD had spoken these words unto Job, he said unto Eliphaz the Temanite, "I am displeased with thee and thy two friends, for ye have not spoken the thing that is right before me, like as my servant Job hath done.

Therefore take seven oxen and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, offer up also for yourselves a burnt offering: and let my servant Job pray for you. Him will I accept, and not deal with you after your foolishness: in that ye have not spoken the thing which is right, like as my servant Job hath done."

He that dwelleth in heaven shall laugh them to scorn: the Lord shall have them in derision.

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

As for me, I will preach the law, whereof the LORD hath said unto me, "Thou art my son, this day have I begotten thee.

I will not be afraid for ten thousands of the people that have set themselves against me.

{To the Chanter in Neginoth, a Psalm of David} Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness! Thou hast set me at liberty when I was in trouble; have mercy upon me, and hearken unto my prayer.

O ye sons of men, how long will ye blaspheme mine honour, and have such pleasure in vanity, and seek after leasing? Selah.

Destroy thou them, O God; let them perish in their own imaginations! Cast them out in the multitude of their ungodliness; 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.

{Shiggaion of David, which he sang for the words of Cush the son of Benjamin} O LORD my God, in thee have I put my trust; save me from all them that persecute me, and deliver me,

O LORD my God, if I have done any such thing, or if there be any wickedness in my hands,

if I have rewarded evil unto him that dealt friendly with me, or hurt them that without any cause are mine enemies;

Thou makest him to have dominion of the works of thy hands; and thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet -

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

Arise, LORD, and let no man have the upper hand; let the Heathen be judged in thy sight.

While the ungodly hath the overhand, the poor must suffer persecution; let them be taken in the crafty wiliness that they have imagined!

Which have said, "With our tongue will we prevail; we are they that ought to speak; Who is lord over us?"

lest mine enemy say, "I have prevailed against him." For if I be cast down, they that trouble me will rejoice at it.

Have they no knowledge, that they are all such workers of mischief, eating up my people as it were bread, and call not upon the LORD?

As for you, ye have made a mock at the counsel of the poor, because he putteth his trust in the LORD.

{Michtam of David} Preserve me, O God, for in thee have I put my trust.

But they that run after another god shall have great trouble. Their drink offerings of blood will I not offer, neither make mention of their names within my lips.

The lot is fallen unto me in fair ground; yea I have a goodly heritage.

I have set the LORD always before me; for he is on my righthand. Therefore I shall not fall.

Because of men's works that are done against the words of thy lips, I have kept me from the ways of the destroyer.

I have called upon thee, O God, for thou shalt hear me; incline thine ear to me, and hearken unto my words.

From the men of thy hand, O LORD, from the men, I say, and from the evil world, which have their portion in this life, whose bellies thou fillest with thy hid treasure.

They have children at their desire, and leave the rest of their substance for their babes. But as for me, I shall behold thy presence in righteousness: and when I awake up after thy likeness, I shall be satisfied with it.

The sorrows of death compassed me, and the overflowings of ungodliness made me afraid. {TYNDALE: For the waves of death have closed me about, and the floods of Belial have feared me.}

The pains of hell came about me; the snares of death overtook me. {TYNDALE: The cords of hell have compassed me about, and the snares of death have overtaken me.}

Because I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not forsaken my God, as the wicked doth. {TYNDALE: For I kept the ways of the LORD, and did no wickedness, forsaking my God.}

For I have an eye unto all his laws, and will not cast out his commandments from me. {TYNDALE: But I had all his laws in my sight, and I turned my face from none of his ordinances.}

I will follow upon mine enemies, and overtake them; neither will I turn again till I have destroyed them. {TYNDALE: I followed mine enemies and destroyed them, and turned not again until I had consumed them.}

Thou shalt deliver me from the strivings of the people, and thou shalt make me the head of the Heathen. A people whom I have not known shall serve me. {TYNDALE: And thou deliveredst me from the dissension of my people, and keepest me to be a head over nations, for the people which I knew not became my servants.}

"He trusted in the LORD, that he would deliver him; let him deliver him, if he will have him."

I have been left unto thee ever since I was born; thou art my God, even from my mother's womb.

All such as be fat upon earth have eaten and worshipped. All they that go down into the dust shall kneel before him; and no man hath quickened his own soul.

My God, I have put my trust in thee. O let me not be confounded, neither let mine enemies triumph over me.

Call to remembrance, O LORD, thy tender mercies and thy loving-kindnesses, which have been ever of old.

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

O keep my soul, and deliver me; let me not be confounded, for I have put my trust in thee.

I have not dwelt with vain persons; neither will I have fellowship with the deceitful.

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

One thing have I desired of the LORD, which I will require, even that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the fair beauty of the LORD, and to visit his temple.

Hearken unto my voice, O LORD, when I cry unto thee: have mercy upon me, and hear me.

I should utterly have fainted, but that I believe verily to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.

Reward them according to their deeds and wickedness of their own inventions. Recompense them after the works of their hands; pay them that they have deserved.

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

{To the Chanter, A Psalm of David} In thee, O LORD, have I put my trust; let me never be put to confusion. Deliver me in thy righteousness.

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

I have hated them that hold of superstitious vanities, and my trust hath been in the LORD.

Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble, and mine eye is consumed for very heaviness, yea my soul and my body.

For I have heard the blasphemy of the multitude, and fear is on every side, while they conspire together against me, and take their counsel to take away my life.

But my hope hath been in thee, O LORD; I have said, "Thou art my God."

Let me not be confounded, O LORD, for I have called upon thee: let the ungodly be put to confusion, and put to silence in the grave.

I will acknowledge my sin unto thee; and mine unrighteousness have I not hid. I said, "I will confess my sins unto the LORD." And so thou forgavest the wickedness of my sin. Selah.

Be ye not like to horse and mule, which have no understanding, whose mouths must be held with bit and bridle, if they will not obey thee.

So shall our heart rejoice in him, because we have hoped in his holy name.

For they have privily laid their net to destroy me without a cause; yea, and made a pit for my soul, which I never deserved.

Let them not say in their hearts, "There! There! So would we have it!" Neither let them say, "We have devoured him."

The ungodly have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the simple and poor, and to slay such as are of a right conversation.

They shall not be confounded in the perilous time; and in the days of dearth they shall have enough.

I have been young, and now am old; and yet saw I never the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging their bread.

I myself have seen the ungodly in great power, and flourishing like a green bay-tree.

"LORD, let me know mine end, and the number of my days: that I may be certified how long I have to live.

I have not hid thy righteousness within my heart; my talk hath been of thy truth, and of thy salvation.

For innumerable troubles are come about me; my sins have taken such hold upon me, that I am not able to look up. Yea, they are more in number than the hairs of my head, and my heart hath failed me.

I said, "LORD be merciful unto me, heal my soul, for I have sinned against thee!"

They have given a wicked sentence upon me, "When he lieth, he shall rise up no more."

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

{To the Chanter, an instruction of the sons of Korah} We have heard with our ears, O God; our fathers have told us what thou hast done in their time of old.

If we have forgotten the name of our God, and hold up our hands to any strange god,

{To the Chanter, upon Shoshannim, an instruction of the children of Korah; a song of love} My heart is inditing of a good matter; I speak the things which I have made unto the King. My tongue is the pen of a ready writer.

Good luck have thou with thine honour; ride on with the truth, meekness and righteousness: and thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things.

So shall the king have pleasure in thy beauty; for he is thy LORD, and thou shalt worship him.

Instead of thy fathers thou shalt have children, whom thou mayest make princes in all lands.

Like as we have heard, so see we in the city of the LORD of Hosts, in the city of our God. God upholdeth the same forever. Selah.

They lie in the hell like sheep, death gnaweth upon them, and the righteous shall have domination of them in the morning. Their beauty shall consume in the sepulchre, and hell shall be their dwelling.

{To the chanter, a Psalm of David, when the Prophet Nathan came unto him, after he was gone in to Bathsheba} Have mercy upon me, O God, after thy great goodness; according to the multitude of thy mercies do away mine offences.

Against thee only have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight, that thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and clear when thou shalt judge.

How can they have understanding, that are the workers of wickedness, eating up my people as it were bread, and calling not upon God?

For strangers are risen up against me; and tyrants, which have not God before their eyes, seek after my soul. Selah.

Their mouths are softer than butter, and yet have they battle in their mind: their words are smoother than oil, and yet be they very swords.

Yea, in God have I put my trust; I will not be afraid what man can do unto me.

I will call unto the Most High God, even unto the God that shall perform the cause which I have in hand.

They have laid a net for my feet, and pressed down my soul: they have digged a pit before me, and are fallen into it themselves. Selah.

But thou, O LORD, shalt have them in derision, thou shalt laugh all the Heathen to scorn.

Let them run here and there for meat, and grudge when they have not enough.

God spoke once, and twice I have also heard the same, that power belongeth unto God,

Have I not remembered thee in my bed, and thought upon thee when I was waking?