“Look now at Behemoth, which I made as I made you; it eats grass like the ox.

Not so with the wicked! Instead they are like wind-driven chaff.

I am not afraid of the multitude of people who attack me from all directions.

When I look up at the heavens, which your fingers made, and see the moon and the stars, which you set in place,

He says to himself, “I will never be upended, because I experience no calamity.”

They say, “We speak persuasively; we know how to flatter and boast. Who is our master?”

I will praise the Lord who guides me; yes, during the night I reflect and learn.

The one whose deeds are blameless and whose motives are pure, who does not lie, or make promises with no intention of keeping them.

I will be happy and rejoice in your faithfulness, because you notice my pain and you are aware of how distressed I am.

How blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, the people whom he has chosen to be his special possession.

Let destruction take them by surprise! Let the net they hid catch them! Let them fall into destruction!

I am like a man who cannot hear and is incapable of arguing his defense.

They say, ‘An awful disease overwhelms him, and now that he is bed-ridden he will never recover.’

Even my close friend whom I trusted, he who shared meals with me, has turned against me.

Come! Witness the exploits of the Lord, who brings devastation to the earth!

He picked out for us a special land to be a source of pride for Jacob, whom he loves. (Selah)

We would share personal thoughts with each other; in God’s temple we would walk together among the crowd.

They stalk and lurk; they watch my every step, as they prepare to take my life.

that does not respond to the magicians, or to a skilled snake-charmer.

They sharpen their tongues like a sword; they aim their arrow, a slanderous charge,