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