8They are licentious, and speake wickedly of their oppression: they talke presumptuously.
9They set their mouth against heauen, and their tongue walketh through the earth.
10Therefore his people turne hither: for waters of a full cup are wrung out to them.
11And they say, Howe doeth God know it? or is there knowledge in the most High?
12Lo, these are the wicked, yet prosper they alway, and increase in riches.
13Certainely I haue clensed mine heart in vaine, and washed mine hands in innocencie.
14For dayly haue I bene punished, and chastened euery morning.
15If I say, I will iudge thus, beholde the generation of thy children: I haue trespassed.
16Then thought I to know this, but it was too painefull for me,
17Vntill I went into the Sanctuarie of God: then vnderstoode I their ende.
18Surely thou hast set them in slipperie places, and castest them downe into desolation.
19How suddenly are they destroyed, perished and horribly consumed,
20As a dreame when one awaketh! O Lord, when thou raisest vs vp, thou shalt make their image despised.
21Certainely mine heart was vexed, and I was pricked in my reines:
22So foolish was I and ignorant: I was a beast before thee.
23Yet I was alway with thee: thou hast holden me by my right hand.
24Thou wilt guide me by thy counsell, and afterward receiue me to glory.
Psalms 73
Psalms 73:8-24