ECB(i)
3 For I envy them who halal when I see the shalom of the wicked:
4 for there are no bands in their death: their might fattens;
5 they are neither in toil of man nor touched as humans.
6 So pomp chokes them; violence shrouds them as a masculine garment:
7 their eyes stand out with fat; they surpass the imagination of the heart:
8 they blaspheme and word evil concerning oppression; they word loftily:
9 they set their mouth against the heavens and their tongue walks through the earth.
10 So his people return here; and waters of fulness wring out to them.
11 And they say, How knows El? Is there knowledge in Elyon?
12 Behold, these are the wicked, - eternally serene who increase in valuables.
13 Surely I purify my heart in vain and wash my palms in innocency.
14 For all the day long I am touched and reproofed in the morning.
15 If I say, I scribe thus; behold, I deal covertly with the generation of your sons:
16 when I fabricated to know this, it is toilsome in my eyes
17 - until I go into the hallowed refuge of El - then I discern their finality.
18 Surely you set them in smooth places; you cast them down into ruins:
19 how they become a desolation - as in a blink! in consuming, they are consumed with terrors.
20 As a dream on wakening, O Adonay, when you waken, you despise their image.
21 Thus my heart embitters and I am pricked in my reins:
22 I am stupid and know not - as an animal in front of you.
23 And I am continually with you; you hold me by my right hand;
24 you lead me with your counsel and afterward take me to honor.
25 Whom have I in the heavens? I desire no one on earth beside you.
26 My flesh and my heart finish off; but Elohim is the rock of my heart and my allotment eternally.
27 For behold, they who are far from you destruct; you exterminate all who whore away from you.
28 and it is good for me to draw near to Elohim; I put my refuge in Adonay Yah Veh, so that I scribe all your works.