Psalms 72:7-16

⁷Their iniquity hath come forth, as it were from fatness: they have passed into the affection of the heart.

⁸They have thought and spoken wickedness: they have spoken iniquity on high.

⁹They have set their mouth against heaven: and their tongue hath passed through the earth.

¹⁰Therefore will my people return here and full days shall be found in them.

¹¹And they said: How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the most High?

¹²Behold these are sinners; and yet abounding in the world they have obtained riches.

¹³And I said: Then have I in vain justified my heart, and washed my hands among the innocent.

¹⁴And I have been scourged all the day; and my chastisement hath been in the mornings.

¹⁵If I said: I will speak thus; behold I should condemn the generation of thy children.

¹⁶I studied that I might know this thing, it is a labour in my sight: