Just art thou, O Jehovah, and upright thy judgments.

Thou art near, O Jehovah; and all thy commands are truth.

Of old I knew from thy testimonies, for thou didst found them forever.

My lips shall seek praise, for thou wilt teach me thy laws.

What shall be given to thee? and what shall be added to thee, thou tongue of deceit?

For thou shalt eat the labor of thy hands: happy thou, and well to thee.

Jehovah shall bless thee from Zion: and look thou upon the good of Jerusalem all the days of thy life.

And see thou the sons to thy sons: peace upon Israel.

If thou, Jehovah, shalt watch iniquities, O Jehovah, who shall stand?

For with thee, forgiveness; so that thou shalt be feared.

Arise, O Jehovah, to thy rest; thou, and the ark of thy strength.

For sake of David thy servant thou wilt not turn away the face of thy Messiah.

O daughter of Babel laying waste; happy he recompensing to thee thy retribution thou didst to us

I will worship to thy holy temple, and I will praise thy name for thy mercy and for thy truth: for thou didst magnify thy word over all thy name.

In the day I called, and thou wilt answer me; thou wilt enlarge me with strength in my soul.

If I shall go in the midst of straits, thou wilt make me alive: against the anger of mine enemies thou wilt stretch forth thy hand, and thy right hand shall save me.

Jehovah will complete for me: O Jehovah, thy mercy is forever: thou wilt not let go the works of thy hands.

To the overseer, to David a chanting. O Jehovah thou didst search me, and thou wilt know.

Thou knewest my sitting and my rising; thou didst understand for my thoughts from far of

Thou didst sift my way and my lying down, and thou knewest all my ways.

For not a word in my tongue, behold, O Jehovah, thou knewest all of it

Thou didst press me behind and before, and thou wilt place thine hand upon me.

If I shall ascend to the heavens, thou art there: and shall I bend down to hades, behold thee.

For thou didst possess my reins: thou wilt cover me in my mother's womb.

Surely thou wilt kill the unjust one, O God: and ye men of bloods, depart from me.

To the overseer, chanting to David: Deliver me, O Jehovah, from the evil man: wilt thou guard me from the man of violences

Watch me, O Jehovah, from the hands of the unjust one; from the man of violences wilt thou guard me; who purposed to overthrow my steps.

I said to Jehovah, Thou my God: give ear, O Jehovah, to the voice of my supplication.

O Jehovah my Lord, the strength of my salvation, thou didst cover for my head in the day of weapons.

Thou wilt not give, O Jehovah, the desires of the unjust one: thou wilt not bring forth his device; they will be lifted up. Silence.

Thou wilt not incline my heart to an evil word, to work works in injustice with men doing iniquity: and I will not eat upon their dainties.

For to thee, O Jehovah my Lord, are mine eyes: in thee I put my trust; thou wilt not make my soul naked.

In my spirit languishing upon me, and thou knewest my beaten paths. In the way which I shall go they hid a snare for me.

I cried to thee, O Jehovah: I said, Thou my refuge, my portion in the land of the living.

Bring forth my soul out of prison to praise thy name: the just shall surround upon me; for thou wilt benefit to me.

And thou wilt not come into judgment with thy servant, for all living shall not be justified before thee.

Quickly answer me, O Jehovah: my spirit failed: thou wilt not hide thy face from me: I was made like those going down to the pit.

Teach me to do thine acceptance, for thou art my God: thy spirit is good; thou wilt guide me into a land of uprightness.

For sake of thy name, O Jehovah, thou wilt make me live: in thy justice thou wilt bring forth my soul out of straits.

And in thy mercy thou wilt cut off mine enemies, and thou destroyedst all those pressing my soul: for I am thy servant

O Jehovah, what is man and thou wilt know him? the son of man, and thou wilt reckon him?

O Jehovah, incline thy heavens, and thou wilt come down: touch upon the mountains and they shall smoke.

Send forth the lightning, and thou wilt scatter them: send thine arrows, and thou wilt destroy them.

The eyes of all hope for thee, and thou givest to them their food in its time.

My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and thou shalt not reject the law of thy mother:

My son, if they sinning shall entice thee, thou shalt not go in.

Wilt thou cast thy lot in the midst of us; one purse shall be to all:

My son, thou shalt not go in the way with them; withhold thy foot from their beaten paths:

My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and wilt hide my commands with thee;

To attend to wisdom thou wilt incline thine ear, thy heart to understanding;

For if thou will call to understanding, wilt give thy voice to understanding

If thou wilt seek her as silver, and dig for her as hidden treasure;

Then shalt thou understand the fear of Jehovah, and thou shalt find the knowledge of God.

Then thou shalt understand justice and judgment and uprightness; every good track.

So that thou shalt go in the way of the good, and thou shalt watch the paths of the just

My son, thou shalt not forget my law, and thy heart shall guard my commands:

Trust to Jehovah with all thy heart; and thou shalt not lean to thine understanding.

Thou shalt not be wise in thine eyes: fear Jehovah and depart from evil.

My son, thou shalt not reject the instruction of Jehovah, and thou shalt not loathe upon his reproofs:

Then shalt thou go thy way confidently, and thy foot shall not stumble.

If thou shalt lie down thou shalt not be afraid: and thou liest down and thy sleep shall be sweet

Thou shalt not be afraid from sudden terror, and from the destruction of the unjust when it shall come.

Thou shalt not withhold good from those possessing it in its being to the power of thy hand to do.

Thou shalt not say to thy neighbor, Go, and turn back, and to-morrow I will give; and there is with thee.

Thou shalt not fabricate evil upon thy neighbor, and he dwelling confidently with thee.

Thou shalt not contend with man to no purpose, if he did thee no evil

Thou shalt not envy against a man of violence, and thou shalt choose in all his ways.

Obtain wisdom, obtain understanding: thou shalt not forget, and thou shalt not decline from the words of my mouth.

Thou shalt not forsake her, and she will watch thee: love her, and she will guard thee.

Lift her up and she shall exalt thee: she will honor thee when thou. shalt embrace her.

In thy going, thy steps shall not be pressed; and if thou shalt run thou shalt not be weak.

Lay hold upon instruction, thou shalt not let go: guard her for she is thy life.

In the path of the unjust thou shalt not go, and thou shalt not advance in the way of the wicked.

Reject it, thou shalt not pass in it; turn aside from it and pass by.

Thou shalt not decline to the right and the left: turn away thy foot from evil

Lest thou shalt make level the path of life, her tracks wavered; thou wilt not know.

Remove far off from her thy way, and thou shalt not draw near to the door of her house:

Lest thou shalt give thy strength to others, and thy years to the cruel:

And thou didst lament in thy latter state, in the consuming of thy flesh and thy fulness,

And thou saidst, How did I hate instruction, and my heart despise reproofs

The hind of loves and the wild goat of grace; her breasts shall satiate thee in all time; thou shalt always wander in her loves.

And wherefore, my son, wilt thou wander with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?

My son, if thou becamest surety for thy friend, thou didst strike thy hands for a stranger;

Thou wert snared with the sayings of thy mouth, thou wert taken with the sayings of thy mouth.

Do this now, my son, and deliver thyself when thou camest into the hand of thy friend; go humble thyself and enlarge thy friend.

Thou shalt not give sleep to thine eyes, and slumber to thine eyelashes.

Go to the ant, thou slothful one; see her ways, and be wise:

How long, O slothful one, wilt thou lie down? when wilt thou rise from thy sleep?

My son, watch the commands of thy father, and thou shalt not reject the laws of thy mother:

Thou shalt not desire her beauty in thy heart, and she shall not take thee with her eyelashes.

He will not lift up the face of any ransom, and he will not be willing if thou shalt increase the reward.

My son, watch my words, and thou shalt hide my commands with thee.

Say to wisdom, Thou my sister; and thou shalt call knowledge to understanding:

And thy heart shall not deviate to her ways; thou shalt not wander in her beaten paths.

Thou shalt not reprove him mocking, lest he shall hate thee: reprove to the wise one and he will love thee.

Thou shalt give to the wise one and he will be more wise: make known to the just one and he will add receiving.

If thou wert wise, thou wert wise for thyself: and thou mockedst, thou alone shalt suffer.

Go from before to the foolish man and thou knewest not the lips of knowledge.

The stern in wrath lifted up a fine: for if thou shalt deliver and thou shalt yet add.

Hear counsel and receive instruction, so that thou shalt be wise in thy latter state.