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1Truly God is good to Israel,[#Ps 51.10; 86.5]
to those who are pure in heart.
2But as for me, my feet had almost stumbled;[#Ps 94.18]
my steps had nearly slipped.
3For I was envious of the arrogant;[#Ps 37.1; Jer 12.1]
I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
4For they have no pain;
their bodies are sound and sleek.
5They are not in trouble as others are;[#Job 21.9]
they are not plagued like other people.
6Therefore pride is their necklace;[#Ps 109.18]
violence covers them like a garment.
7Their eyes swell out with fatness;[#Job 15.27; Ps 17.10]
their hearts overflow with follies.
8They scoff and speak with malice;[#Ps 53.1; Jude 16]
loftily they threaten oppression.
9They set their mouths against heaven,
and their tongues range over the earth.
10Therefore the people turn and praise them[#73.10 Cn: Heb his people return here]
and find no fault in them.
11And they say, “How can God know?[#Job 22.13]
Is there knowledge in the Most High?”
12Such are the wicked;[#Ps 49.6; Jer 49.31]
always at ease, they increase in riches.
13All in vain I have kept my heart clean[#Job 21.15; Ps 26.6]
and washed my hands in innocence.
14For all day long I have been plagued[#Ps 38.6; 118.18]
and am punished every morning.
15If I had said, “I will talk on in this way,”
I would have been untrue to the circle of your children.
16But when I thought how to understand this,[#Eccl 8.17]
it seemed to me a wearisome task,
17until I went into the sanctuary of God;[#Ps 77.13]
then I perceived their end.
18Truly you set them in slippery places;[#Ps 35.6, 8]
you make them fall to ruin.
19How they are destroyed in a moment,[#Num 26.21; Job 18.11]
swept away utterly by terrors!
20They are like a dream when one awakes;[#1 Sam 2.30; Job 20.8; #73.20 Cn: Heb Lord]
on awaking you despise their phantoms.
21When my soul was embittered,
when I was pricked in heart,
22I was stupid and ignorant;[#Job 18.3; Ps 49.10]
I was like a brute beast toward you.
23Nevertheless, I am continually with you;
you hold my right hand.
24You guide me with your counsel,[#Ps 32.8; 48.14]
and afterward you will receive me with honor.
25Whom have I in heaven but you?[#Phil 3.8]
And there is nothing on earth that I desire other than you.
26My flesh and my heart may fail,[#Ps 16.5; 84.2]
but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
27Indeed, those who are far from you will perish;[#Ps 37.20]
you put an end to those who are false to you.
28But for me it is good to be near God;[#Ps 40.5; 71.7; Heb 10.22]
I have made the Lord God my refuge,
to tell of all your works.