Psalm 73

¹Truly God is good to Israel, to such as are of a pure heart.

²But as for me, my feet were almost gone, my steps had well nigh slipped;

³For I was envious at the arrogant, seeing the prosperity of the wicked.

⁴For they have no pangs in their death, and their body is well nourished;

⁵They have not the hardships of mankind, neither are they plagued like [other] men:

⁶Therefore pride encompasseth them as a neck-chain, violence covereth them [as] a garment;

⁷Their eyes stand out from fatness, they exceed the imaginations of their heart:

⁸They mock and speak wickedly of oppression, they speak loftily:

⁹They set their mouth in the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth.

¹⁰Therefore his people turn hither, and waters in fulness are wrung out to them.

¹¹And they say, How can God know, and is there knowledge in the Most High?

¹²Behold, these are the wicked, and they prosper in the world: they heap up riches.

¹³Truly have I purified my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency:

¹⁴For all the day have I been plagued, and chastened every morning.

¹⁵If I said, I will speak thus, behold, I should be faithless to the generation of thy children.