If thou hast sinned, what dost thou against Him? And thy transgressions have been multiplied, What dost thou to Him?

If thou hast been righteous, What dost thou give to Him? Or what from thy hand doth He receive?

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

Dost thou know when God doth place them, And caused to shine the light of His cloud?

Dost thou know the balancings of a cloud? The wonders of the Perfect in knowledge?

Revealed to thee were the gates of death? And the gates of death-shade dost thou see?

That thou dost take it unto its boundary, And that thou dost understand The paths of its house.

Hast thou come in unto the treasure of snow? Yea, the treasures of hail dost thou see?

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

Dost thou bring out Mazzaroth in its season? And Aysh for her sons dost thou comfort?

Hast thou known the statutes of heaven? Or dost thou appoint Its dominion in the earth?

Dost thou lift up to the cloud thy voice, And abundance of water doth cover thee?

Dost thou send out lightnings, and they go And say unto thee, 'Behold us?'

Dost thou hunt for a lion prey? And the desire of young lions fulfil?

Hast thou known the time of The bearing of the wild goats of the rock? The bringing forth of hinds thou dost mark!

Thou dost number the months they fulfil? And thou hast known the time of their bringing forth!

Dost thou bind a Reem in a furrow with his thick band? Doth he harrow valleys after thee?

Dost thou trust in him because great is his power? And dost thou leave unto him thy labour?

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

Dost thou give to the horse might? Dost thou clothe his neck with a mane?

Dost thou cause him to rush as a locust? The majesty of his snorting is terrible.

Dost thou also make void My judgment? Dost thou condemn Me, That thou mayest be righteous?

And an arm like God hast thou? And with a voice like Him dost thou thunder?

Dost thou draw leviathan with an angle? And with a rope thou lettest down -- his tongue?

Dost thou put a reed in his nose? And with a thorn pierce his jaw?

Doth he make a covenant with thee? Dost thou take him for a servant age-during?

Dost thou play with him as a bird? And dost thou bind him for thy damsels?

Dost thou fill with barbed irons his skin? And with fish-spears his head?

Thou dost rule them with a sceptre of iron, As a vessel of a potter Thou dost crush them.'

In peace together I lie down and sleep, For Thou, O Jehovah, alone, In confidence dost cause me to dwell!

For Thou blessest the righteous, O Jehovah, As a buckler with favour dost compass him!

Thou dost cause him to rule Over the works of Thy hands, All Thou hast placed under his feet.

Why, Jehovah, dost Thou stand at a distance? Thou dost hide in times of adversity,

Thou, O Jehovah, dost preserve them, Thou keepest us from this generation to the age.

To the Overseer. -- A Psalm of David. Till when, O Jehovah, Dost Thou forget me? -- for ever? Till when dost Thou hide Thy face from me?

Jehovah is the portion of my share, and of my cup, Thou -- Thou dost uphold my lot.

For Thou dost not leave my soul to Sheol, Nor givest thy saintly one to see corruption.

I -- I called Thee, for Thou dost answer me, O God, incline Thine ear to me, hear my speech.

Keep me as the apple, the daughter of the eye; In shadow of Thy wings thou dost hide me.

Thou dost deliver me From the strivings of the people, Thou placest me for a head of nations, A people I have not known do serve me.

My deliverer from mine enemies, Above my withstanders Thou raisest me, From a man of violence dost deliver me.

For Thou makest him blessings for ever, Thou dost cause him to rejoice with joy, By Thy countenance.

In Thee did our fathers trust -- they trusted, And Thou dost deliver them.

Jehovah my God, I have cried to Thee, And Thou dost heal me.

Thou art a hiding-place for me, From distress Thou dost keep me, With songs of deliverance dost compass me. Selah.

Lord, how long dost thou behold? Keep back my soul from their desolations, From young lions my only one.

They are filled from the fatness of Thy house, And the stream of Thy delights Thou dost cause them to drink.

Because for Thee, O Jehovah, I have waited, Thou dost answer, O Lord my God.

With reproofs against iniquity, Thou hast corrected man, And dost waste as a moth his desirableness, Only, vanity is every man. Selah.

Judge me, O God, And plead my cause against a nation not pious, From a man of deceit and perverseness Thou dost deliver me,

Thou, with Thy hand, nations hast dispossessed. And Thou dost plant them. Thou afflictest peoples, and sendest them away.

But Thou hast smitten us in a place of dragons, And dost cover us over with death-shade.

Stir up -- why dost Thou sleep, O Lord? Awake, cast us not off for ever.

Instead of thy fathers are thy sons, Thou dost appoint them for princes in all the earth.

For his soul in his life he blesseth, (And they praise thee when thou dost well for thyself.)

Yea, thou hast hated instruction, And dost cast My words behind thee.

O Lord, my lips thou dost open, And my mouth declareth Thy praise.

The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, A heart broken and bruised, O God, Thou dost not despise.

Do good in Thy good pleasure with Zion, Thou dost build the walls of Jerusalem.

And Thou, O God, dost bring them down To a pit of destruction, Men of blood and deceit reach not to half their days, And I -- I do trust in Thee!

For Thou hast delivered my soul from death, Dost Thou not my feet from falling? To walk habitually before God in the light of the living!

And Thou, O Jehovah dost laugh at them, Thou dost mock at all the nations.

To the Overseer. -- 'Concerning the Lily of Testimony,' a secret treasure of David, to teach, in his striving with Aram-Naharaim, and with Aram-Zobah, and Joab turneth back and smiteth Edom in the valley of Salt -- twelve thousand. O God, Thou hadst cast us off, Thou hadst broken us -- hadst been angry! -- Thou dost turn back to us.

Is it not Thou, O God? hast Thou cast us off? And dost Thou not go forth, O God, with our hosts!

From the end of the land unto Thee I call, In the feebleness of my heart, Into a rock higher than I Thou dost lead me.

And with Thee, O Lord, is kindness, For Thou dost recompense to each, According to his work!

Matters of iniquities were mightier than I, Our transgressions -- Thou dost cover them.

Thou hast inspected the earth, and waterest it, Thou makest it very rich, the rivulet of God is full of water, Thou preparest their corn, When thus Thou dost prepare it,

Its ridges have been filled, Deepened hath been its furrow, With showers Thou dost soften it, Its springing up Thou blessest.

In Thy righteousness Thou dost deliver me, And dost cause me to escape, Incline unto me Thine ear, and save me.

By Thee I have been supported from the womb, From my mother's bowels Thou dost cut me out, In Thee is my praise continually.

Thou dost increase my greatness, And Thou surroundest -- Thou comfortest me,

Only, in slippery places Thou dost set them, Thou hast caused them to fall to desolations.

With Thy counsel Thou dost lead me, And after honour dost receive me.

Why dost Thou turn back Thy hand, Even Thy right hand? From the midst of Thy bosom remove it.

A vine out of Egypt Thou dost bring, Thou dost cast out nations, and plantest it.

Thou hast looked before it, and dost root it, And it filleth the land,

And we do not go back from Thee, Thou dost revive us, and in Thy name we call.

Hear, O My people, and I testify to thee, O Israel, if thou dost hearken to me:

So dost Thou pursue them with Thy whirlwind, And with Thy hurricane troublest them.

To the age art Thou angry against us? Dost Thou draw out Thine anger To generation and generation?

Dost Thou not turn back? Thou revivest us, And Thy people do rejoice in Thee.

Show us, O Jehovah, thy kindness, And Thy salvation Thou dost give to us.

In a day of my distress I call Thee, For Thou dost answer me.

To the dead dost Thou do wonders? Do Rephaim rise? do they thank Thee? Selah.

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

Thou art ruler over the pride of the sea, In the lifting up of its billows Thou dost restrain them.

And Thou, Thou hast cast off, and dost reject, Thou hast shown Thyself wroth With Thine anointed,

Before mountains were brought forth, And Thou dost form the earth and the world, Even from age unto age Thou art God.

With His pinion He covereth thee over, And under His wings thou dost trust, A shield and buckler is His truth.

I act wisely in a perfect way, When dost Thou come in unto me? I walk habitually in the integrity of my heart, In the midst of my house.

From Thine indignation and Thy wrath, For Thou hast lifted me up, And dost cast me down.

Thou dost give to them -- they gather, Thou dost open Thy hand -- they are satisfied with good.

They revile, and Thou dost bless, They have risen, and are ashamed, And Thy servant doth rejoice.

The way of Thy commands I run, For Thou dost enlarge my heart!

How many are the days of Thy servant? When dost Thou execute Against my pursuers judgment?

My lips do utter praise, For Thou dost teach me Thy statutes.

If iniquities Thou dost observe, O Lord, who doth stand?

In the day I called, when Thou dost answer me, Thou dost strengthen me in my soul with strength.

Behind and before Thou hast besieged me, And Thou dost place on me Thy hand.