1. Truly God is good to Israel, to such as are of a pure heart.
2. But as for me, my feet were almost gone, my steps had well nigh slipped;
3. For I was envious at the arrogant, seeing the prosperity of the wicked.
4. For they have no pangs in their death, and their body is well nourished;
5. They have not the hardships of mankind, neither are they plagued like other men:
6. Therefore pride encompasseth them as a neck-chain, violence covereth them as a garment;
7. Their eyes stand out from fatness, they exceed the imaginations of their heart:
8. They mock and speak wickedly of oppression, they speak loftily:
9. They set their mouth in the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth.
10. Therefore his people turn hither, and waters in fulness are wrung out to them.