Let your eyes look directly in front of you and let your gaze look straight before you.

I keep your precepts and rules, for you are aware of everything I do.

O Lord, you understand my heart’s desire; my groaning is not hidden from you.

You know how I am insulted, humiliated and disgraced; you can see all my enemies.

For you are aware of our many rebellious deeds, and our sins testify against us; indeed, we are aware of our rebellious deeds; we know our sins all too well.

Look, you make my days short-lived, and my life span is nothing from your perspective. Surely all people, even those who seem secure, are nothing but vapor.

A song, a psalm written by the Korahites; for the music director; according to the machalath-leannoth style; a well-written song by Heman the Ezrachite. O Lord God who delivers me! By day I cry out and at night I pray before you.

When the money from the lands of Egypt and Canaan was used up, all the Egyptians came to Joseph and said, “Give us food! Why should we die before your very eyes because our money has run out?”