<p class="poetry">Is not your piety<n id="1" /> your confidence,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and your blameless ways your hope?<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">Caravans<n id="1" /> turn aside from their routes;p> <p class="poetry">they go<n id="2" /> into the wasteland<n id="3" /> and perish.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">When he imposed a limit<n id="1" /> for the rain,p> <p class="poetry">and a path for the thunderstorm,<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Why is light given<n id="1" /> to a man<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">whose way is hidden,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">and whom God has hedged in?<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">Indeed, this is the joy of his way,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and out of the earth<n id="2" /> others spring up.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">But the righteous man holds to his way,p> <p class="poetry">and the one with clean hands grows stronger.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">So they say to God, &#8216;Turn away from us!p> <p class="poetry">We do not want to<n id="1" /> know your ways.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Have you never questioned those who travel the roads?p> <p class="poetry">Do you not recognize their accounts<n id="1" /> &#8211;p>

<p class="poetry">Whatever you decide<n id="1" /> on a matter,p> <p class="poetry">it will be established for you,p> <p class="poetry">and light will shine on your ways.p>

<p class="poetry">But he knows the pathway that I take;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">if he tested me, I would come forth like gold.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">My feet<n id="1" /> have followed<n id="2" /> his steps closely;p> <p class="poetry">I have kept to his way and have not turned aside.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">They turn the needy from the pathway,p> <p class="poetry">and the poor of the land hide themselves together.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">God<n id="1" /> may let them rest in a feeling of security,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">but he is constantly watching<n id="3" /> all their ways.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">God understands the way to it,p> <p class="poetry">and he alone knows its place.p>

<p class="poetry">Does he not see my waysp> <p class="poetry">and count all my steps?p>

<p class="poetry">For his eyes are on the ways of an individual,p> <p class="poetry">he observes all a person&#8217;s<n id="1" /> steps.p>

<p class="poetry">Who has prescribed his ways for him?p> <p class="poetry">Or said to him, &#8216;You have done what is wicked&#8217;?p>

<p class="poetry">Who carves out a channel for the heavy rains,p> <p class="poetry">and a path for the rumble of thunder,p>

<p class="poetry">It ranks first among the works of God,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">the One who made itp> <p class="poetry">has furnished it with a sword.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">He deprives the leaders of the earth<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">of their understanding;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">he makes them wanderp> <p class="poetry">in a trackless desert waste.<n id="3" />p>