1Truly God is good to Israel, to those who are pure in heart. (Ps 24,4; Jan 1,47)2But as for me, my feet had almost stumbled, my steps had nearly slipped.3For I was envious of the arrogant when I saw the prosperity of the wicked. (Job 21,7; Ps 37,1; Ps 37,7; Ps 92,7; Przyp 23,17; Jer 12,1)4For they have no pangs until death; their bodies are fat and sleek.5They are not in trouble as others are; they are not stricken like the rest of mankind. (Iz 53,4)6Therefore pride is their necklace; violence covers them as a garment. (Sdz 8,26; Ps 109,18)7Their eyes swell out through fatness; their hearts overflow with follies. (Job 15,27)8They scoff and speak with malice; loftily they threaten oppression. (2 P 2,18; Jud 1,16)9They set their mouths against the heavens, and their tongue struts through the earth.10Therefore his people turn back to them, and find no fault in them.[1] (Job 15,16)11And they say, “How can God know? Is there knowledge in the Most High?” (Job 22,13)12Behold, these are the wicked; always at ease, they increase in riches. (Ps 73,3)13All in vain have I kept my heart clean and washed my hands in innocence. (Job 34,9; Ps 26,6)14For all the day long I have been stricken and rebuked every morning. (Ps 5,1; Ps 101,8; Ap 3,19)15If I had said, “I will speak thus,” I would have betrayed the generation of your children. (Ps 14,5)16But when I thought how to understand this, it seemed to me a wearisome task, (Kazn 8,17)17until I went into the sanctuary of God; then I discerned their end. (Ps 20,2; Ps 37,38)18Truly you set them in slippery places; you make them fall to ruin. (Ps 35,6)19How they are destroyed in a moment, swept away utterly by terrors! (Lb 16,21; Job 18,11)20Like a dream when one awakes, O Lord, when you rouse yourself, you despise them as phantoms. (Job 20,8; Ps 78,65)21When my soul was embittered, when I was pricked in heart,22I was brutish and ignorant; I was like a beast toward you. (Job 11,12; Job 18,3; Ps 49,10)23Nevertheless, I am continually with you; you hold my right hand. (Ps 41,12; Ps 63,8)24You guide me with your counsel, and afterward you will receive me to glory. (Ps 32,8; Ps 49,15)25Whom have I in heaven but you? And there is nothing on earth that I desire besides you. (Ps 16,2; Flp 3,8)26My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength[2] of my heart and my portion forever. (Ps 16,5; Ps 18,2; Ps 40,12; Ps 84,2; Dn 12,3)27For behold, those who are far from you shall perish; you put an end to everyone who is unfaithful to you. (Wj 34,15; Lb 15,39; Ps 106,39; Ps 119,155; Jk 4,4)28But for me it is good to be near God; I have made the Lord GOD my refuge, that I may tell of all your works. (Ps 14,6; Ps 118,17; Hbr 10,22; Jk 4,8)