17. Unless Jehovah [were] a help to me, My soul had almost inhabited silence.
18. If I have said, `My foot hath slipped,' Thy kindness, O Jehovah, supporteth me.
19. In the abundance of my thoughts within me, Thy comforts delight my soul.
20. Is a throne of mischief joined [with] Thee? A framer of perverseness by statute?
21. They decree against the soul of the righteous, And innocent blood declare wicked.
22. And Jehovah is for a high place to me, And my God [is] for a rock--my refuge,