1. A psalm for Asaph.How good is God to Israel, to them that are of a right heart!
2. But my feet were almost moved; my steps had well nigh slipped.
3. Because I had a zeal on occasion of the wicked, seeing the prosperity of sinners.
4. For there is no regard to their death, nor is there strength in their stripes.
5. They are not in the labour of men: neither shall they be scourged like other men.
6. Therefore pride hath held them fast: they are covered with their iniquity and their wickedness.
7. Their iniquity hath come forth, as it were from fatness: they have passed into the affection of the heart.
8. They have thought and spoken wickedness: they have spoken iniquity on high.
9. They have set their mouth against heaven: and their tongue hath passed through the earth.
10. Therefore will my people return here and full days shall be found in them.
11. And they said: How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the most High?