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

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.'

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.

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.'

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,

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

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

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

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?'

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;

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

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.'

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.'

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,'

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

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.

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

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

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

If I have said, 'I recount thus,' Lo, a generation of Thy sons I have deceived.

They said in their hearts, 'Let us oppress them together,' They did burn all the meeting-places of God in the land.

I have said to the boastful, 'Be not boastful,' And to the wicked, 'Raise not up a horn.'

And they speak against God -- they said: 'Is God able to array a table in a wilderness?'

I -- I have said, 'Gods ye are, And sons of the Most High -- all of you,

They have said, 'Come, And we cut them off from being a nation, And the name of Israel is not remembered any more.'

Who have said, 'Let us occupy for ourselves The comely places of God.'

And of Zion it is said: Each one was born in her, And He, the Most High, doth establish her.

For I said, 'To the age is kindness built, The heavens! Thou dost establish Thy faithfulness in them.'

If I have said, 'My foot hath slipped,' Thy kindness, O Jehovah, supporteth me.

He hath said, and the beetle cometh, Lice into all their border.

He hath said, and the locust cometh, And the cankerworm -- innumerable,

They have not destroyed the peoples, As Jehovah had said to them,

Blessed is Jehovah, God of Israel, From the age even unto the age. And all the people said, 'Amen, praise Jah!'

I said in my haste, 'Every man is a liar.'

Cheth. My portion is Jehovah; I have said -- to keep Thy words,

And the passers by have not said, 'The blessing of Jehovah is on you, We blessed you in the Name of Jehovah!'

I have said to Jehovah, 'My God art Thou, Hear, Jehovah, the voice of my supplications.'

I have cried unto thee, O Jehovah, I have said, 'Thou art my refuge, My portion in the land of the living.'

And hast said, 'How have I hated instruction, And reproof hath my heart despised,

Who is simple? let him turn aside hither.' Whoso lacketh heart: she hath said to him,

Who is simple? let him turn aside hither.' And whoso lacketh heart -- she said to him,

The slothful hath said, 'A lion is without, In the midst of the broad places I am slain.'

For better that he hath said to thee, 'Come thou up hither,' Than that he humble thee before a noble, Whom thine eyes have seen.

The slothful hath said, 'A lion is in the way, A lion is in the broad places.'

So hath a man deceived his neighbour, And hath said, 'Am not I playing?'

Lest I become satiated, and have denied, And have said, 'Who is Jehovah?' And lest I be poor, and have stolen, And have laid hold of the name of my God.

To the leech are two daughters, 'Give, give, Lo, three things are not satisfied, Four have not said 'Sufficiency;'

Sheol, and a restrained womb, Earth -- it is not satisfied with water, And fire -- it hath not said, 'Sufficiency,'

So -- the way of an adulterous woman, She hath eaten and hath wiped her mouth, And hath said, 'I have not done iniquity.'

Vanity of vanities, said the Preacher, Vanity of vanities: the whole is vanity.

I said in my heart, 'Pray, come, I try thee with mirth, and look thou on gladness;' and lo, even it is vanity.

Of laughter I said, 'Foolish!' and of mirth, 'What is this it is doing?'

and I said in my heart, 'As it happeneth with the fool, it happeneth also with me, and why am I then more wise?' And I spake in my heart, that also this is vanity:

I said in my heart, 'The righteous and the wicked doth God judge, for a time is to every matter and for every work there.'

I said in my heart concerning the matter of the sons of man that God might cleanse them, so as to see that they themselves are beasts.

If a man doth beget a hundred, and live many years, and is great, because they are the days of his years, and his soul is not satisfied from the goodness, and also he hath not had a grave, I have said, 'Better than he is the untimely birth.'

All this I have tried by wisdom; I have said, 'I am wise,' and it is far from me.

See, this I have found, said the Preacher, one to one, to find out the reason

There is a vanity that hath been done upon the earth, that there are righteous ones unto whom it is coming according to the work of the wicked, and there are wicked ones unto whom it is coming according to the work of the righteous. I have said that this also is vanity.

And I said, 'Better is wisdom than might, and the wisdom of the poor is despised, and his words are not heard.' --

And also, when he that is a fool Is walking in the way, his heart is lacking, And he hath said to every one, 'He is a fool.'

Vanity of vanities, said the preacher, the whole is vanity.

My beloved hath answered and said to me, 'Rise up, my friend, my fair one, and come away,

I said, 'Let me go up on the palm, Let me lay hold on its boughs, Yea, let thy breasts be, I pray thee, as clusters of the vine, And the fragrance of thy face as citrons,

And gone have many peoples and said, 'Come, and we go up unto the mount of Jehovah, Unto the house of the God of Jacob, And He doth teach us of His ways, And we walk in His paths, For from Zion goeth forth a law, And a word of Jehovah from Jerusalem.

And it hath been, he who is left in Zion, And he who is remaining in Jerusalem, 'Holy' is said of him, Of every one who is written for life in Jerusalem.

And this one hath called unto that, and hath said: 'Holy, Holy, Holy, is Jehovah of Hosts, The fulness of all the earth is His glory.'

And He saith, 'Go, and thou hast said to this people, Hear ye -- to hear, and ye do not understand, And see ye -- to see, and ye do not know.

and thou hast said unto him: 'Take heed, and be quiet, fear not, And let not thy heart be timid, Because of these two tails of smoking brands, For the fierceness of the anger of Rezin and Aram, And the son of Remaliah.

Thus said the Lord Jehovah: It doth not stand, nor shall it be!

For he hath said, 'By the power of my hand I have wrought, And by my wisdom, for I have been intelligent, And I remove borders of the peoples, And their chief ones I have spoiled, And I put down as a mighty one the inhabitants,

Therefore, thus said the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts, 'Be not afraid, my people, inhabiting Zion, because of Asshur, With a rod he doth smite thee, And his staff lifteth up against thee, in the way of Egypt.

And thou hast said in that day: 'I thank thee, O Jehovah, Though Thou hast been angry with me, Turn back doth Thine anger, And Thou dost comfort me.

And ye have said in that day, Give ye praise to Jehovah, call in His name. Make known among the peoples His acts. Make mention that set on high is His name.

That thou hast taken up this simile Concerning the king of Babylon, and said, How hath the exactor ceased,

For thus said Jehovah unto me, 'I rest, and I look on My settled place, As a clear heat on an herb. As a thick cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.

In that day there are five cities in the land of Egypt, Speaking the lip of Canaan, And swearing to Jehovah of Hosts, 'The city of destruction,' is said of one.

and the inhabitant of this isle hath said in that day -- Lo, thus is our trust, Whither we have fled for help, To be delivered from the king of Asshur, And how do we escape -- we?'

For thus said the Lord unto me: 'Go, station the watchman, That which he seeth let him declare.'

The watchman hath said, 'Come hath morning, and also night, If ye inquire, inquire ye, turn back, come.'

For thus said the Lord unto me: 'Within a year, as years of a hireling, Consumed hath been all the honour of Kedar.

Therefore I said, 'Look ye from me, I am bitter in my weeping, Haste not to comfort me, For the destruction of the daughter of my people.'