1. A Psalm of Asaph. Only--good to Israel [is] God, to the clean of heart. And I--as a little thing, My feet have been turned aside,
2. As nothing, have my steps slipped, For I have been envious of the boastful,
3. The peace of the wicked I see, That there are no bands at their death,
4. And their might [is] firm.
5. In the misery of mortals they are not, And with common men they are not plagued.
6. Therefore hath pride encircled them, Violence covereth them as a dress.
7. Their eye hath come out from fat. The imaginations of the heart transgressed;
8. They do corruptly, And they speak in the wickedness of oppression, From on high they speak.
9. They have set in the heavens their mouth, And their tongue walketh in the earth.
10. Therefore do His people return hither, And waters of fulness are wrung out to them.
11. And they have said, `How hath God known? And is there knowledge in the Most High?'