1 Как благ Бог к Израилю, к чистым сердцем!

2 А я - едва не пошатнулись ноги мои, едва не поскользнулись стопы мои, -

3 я позавидовал безумным, видя благоденствие нечестивых,

4 ибо им нет страданий до смерти их, и крепки силы их;

5 на работе человеческой нет их, и с прочими людьми не подвергаются ударам.

6 Оттого гордость, как ожерелье, обложила их, и дерзость, как наряд, одевает их;

7 выкатились от жира глаза их, бродят помыслы в сердце;

8 they mock everything, they spout slander, they speak from above;

9 They lift up their mouths to heaven, and their tongue walks on the earth.

10 Wherefore his people turn thither, and drink water full of water,

11 And they say, 'How does God know? and does the Most High have knowledge?"

12 And behold, these wicked ones prosper in this world, multiplying riches.

13 [And I said:] Have I not cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocence?

14 And he subjected himself to wounds all day long, and chastisement every morning?

15 But if I had said, 'I will reason thus,' I should have been guilty before the generation of thy sons.

16 And I thought how to understand these things, but it was difficult in my eyes,

17 until I entered into the sanctuary of God, and understood their end.

E-18 Yes! Thou hast set them on slippery paths, and hast cast them into the abyss.

19 How accidentally they came to ruin, vanished, perished from terrors!

20 As a dream after waking up, so thou, O Lord, when thou awakest them, shalt destroy their dreams.

21 When my heart was boiling, and my inward parts were tormented,

22 then I was ignorant, and did not understand; I was like cattle before you.

23 But I am always with you: you hold me by the right hand;

24 Thou hast guided me by thy counsel, and afterwards thou shalt receive me into glory.

25 Who am I in heaven? and with Thee I desire nothing on earth.

26 My flesh and my heart are faint: God is the stronghold of my heart, and my portion for ever.

27 For behold, they that keep themselves away from thee perish; Thou destroyest every one who departs from Thee.

28 But it is good for me to draw near to God! In the Lord God I have placed my trust, to declare all thy works [in the gate of the daughter of Zion].