11. And they have said, `How hath God known? And is there knowledge in the Most High?'
12. Lo, these [are] the wicked and easy ones of the age, They have increased strength.
13. Only--a vain thing! I have purified my heart, And I wash in innocency my hands,
14. And I am plagued all the day, And my reproof [is] every morning.
15. If I have said, `I recount thus,' Lo, a generation of Thy sons I have deceived.
16. And I think to know this, Perverseness it [is] in mine eyes,
17. Till I come in to the sanctuaries of God, I attend to their latter end.
18. Only, in slippery places Thou dost set them, Thou hast caused them to fall to desolations.
19. How have they become a desolation as in a moment, They have been ended-- consumed from terrors.
20. As a dream from awakening, O Lord, In awaking, their image Thou despisest.
21. For my heart doth show itself violent, And my reins prick themselves,
22. And I am brutish, and do not know. A beast I have been with Thee.
23. And I [am] continually with Thee, Thou hast laid hold on my right hand.
24. With Thy counsel Thou dost lead me, And after honour dost receive me.
25. Whom have I in the heavens? And with Thee none I have desired in earth.
26. Consumed hath been my flesh and my heart, The rock of my heart and my portion [is] God to the age.
27. For, lo, those far from Thee do perish, Thou hast cut off every one, Who is going a whoring from Thee.
28. And I--nearness of God to me [is] good, I have placed in the Lord Jehovah my refuge, To recount all Thy works!